Sniper
by Pavel Hak
23 Members (3.00)
On This Page
Description
"A terse and unflinchingly honest novel about war and man's inhumanity to men and women . . . brutal, bestial and highly disturbing."--William Boyd In an unnamed country, a group of fugitives flees their native village after an attack by the army. Their houses bombed and ransacked, their husbands, children, and parents killed, they are seeking sanctuary. Meanwhile, a sniper hides, picking off innocents in a besieged city. His apocalyptic, hallucinatory voice provides the novel with its main show more themes, the insanity of war and the terrifying exhilaration it excites in its perpetrators. Novelist and playwrightPavel Hak was born in Czechoslovakia in 1962. Exiled in France in 1986, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne University.Sniper is his first book to be published in English. He lives in Paris. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
7 Works 54 Members
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
- DDC/MDS
- 843.92 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction 1900- 2000-
- LCC
- PG5040.18 .A25 .S65 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Slavic Czech
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 23
- Popularity
- 1,112,514
- Rating
- (3.00)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
