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LEADER: 02075cam a22003738i 4500
001 2015039884
003 DLC
005 20151023083949.0
008 151015s2016 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015039884
020 $a9781784782191 (hardback)
020 $z9781784782221 (US e book)
020 $z9781784782214 (UK e book)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPT2682.R56$bE4713 2016
082 00 $a833/.92$223
084 $aFIC037000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aTrojanow, Ilija,$eauthor.
240 10 $aEisTau.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe Lamentations of Zeno :$ba novel /$cby Ilija Trojanow ; translated by Philip Boehm.
263 $a1603
264 1 $aBrooklyn, NY :$bVerso,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Bavarian glaciologist Zeno Hintermeier is taking his last voyage to the Antarctic as a lecturer on board an international cruise ship. He attends to the curiosity of a privileged few as they marvel at the least explored continent and pay witness to its rapid degradation. In his early sixties, Zeno mourns the loss of his beloved glaciers, the disintegration of his loveless marriage, and the crumbling of his increasingly irrelevant career (he compares giving lectures on glaciers to "teaching veterinarians who had specialized in the subject of dinosaurs.") The desperate Zeno hatches a horrifying plan, and driven to the brink, he is convinced that his only option is to shake his fellow passengers out of their complacency and send a wake-up call to the world. With poignant, playful prose, The Lamentations of Zeno is a portrait of a man in extremis, a haunting tale that looks at the greatest challenge of our age from a uniquely human angle"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aGlaciologists$vFiction.
650 0 $aGlaciers$vFiction.
655 0 $aPolitical fiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Political.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aBoehm, Philip,$etranslator.
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781784782191.jpg