Zift: A Noir Novel
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品牌: Todorov
基本信息·出版社：PAUL DRY BOOKS
·页码：200 页
·出版日期：2010年06月
·ISBN：1589880595
·International Standard Book Number：1589880595
·条形码：9781589880597
·EAN：9781589880597
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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内容简介The Moth, "Zift"'s main character, finds himself in jail for a murder he didn't commit during a diamond heist. He starts serving time before 1944 (the year of the Bulgarian communist takeover), and is released some twenty years later into a radically transformed totalitarian reality.The Slug-the mean and calculating architect of the heist and the actual murderer-snatches the Moth at the prison gates. Though he manages to escape the clutches of the Slug, the Moth spends his first night of freedom-and the last night of his life-in a breathtaking chase with time, in search of lost love, truth, and revenge. His frantic flight through Sofia draws the map of a diabolical city-decaying neighborhoods and gloomy streets, bathhouses, train stations, the city canal, a hospital, a cathedral, pompous works of communist architecture encircling the mausoleum, smoky joints, bars, and, finally-the graveyard. In the course of the night, the Moth runs into a bizarre parade of characters: state agents, policemen, students, artists, professors, medics, barflies, outcasts, and gravediggers. When Moth finally tracks down Ada, his former lover and partner in crime, secrets from the past start unraveling."Zift" unfolds in the course of a single frenetic night and offers a fast-paced, ghoulish, grotesque, hardboiled, and enchanting tour of a shadowy socialist Sofia. It is dark spoof of totalitarian absurdity combining the methods of American crime fiction and film noir with socialist symbols and communist ideological clichA(c)s."Variety" called the film version of "Zift" "an instant midnight fest fave."
媒体推荐Tightly-structured, hard-boiled fiction with stylistic turns from 40s noir movies, set in Communist era Bulgaria.
