The Brainfever Bird Tapa dura - 2003

Hardback. Very Good.

London: Picador, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2003 First Edition, First Impression With Number Line. Blue Hard Cover Ith Silver Titles To The Spine, Illustrated Dust Jacket. Book Condition Fine, A Very Clean Copy. Dust Jacket Condition Near Fine, Slight Crease To Edge, Else Fine, Not Price Clipped. A Stunning New Novel From A Celebrated Indian Writer Lev Is A Man Who Has Come Down In The World. Once A Biological Scientist, He Is Now A Chauffeur In 'That New Russia Where Physicists Wash Windows And Engineers Drive Trams'. So He Decides To Take His Somewhat Lethal Knowledge Abroad; To Offer His Services To A Foreign Government. But On The Way From The Airport His Taxi Is Stopped, And He Is Robbed. It Is In This Helpless State, Alone And Adrift In Delhi, That Lev Meets Maya. Beautiful, Ferocious And Utterly Original, Maya Has Been Waiting For A Man Like Lev To Walk Into Her Life. Briefly They Come Together, And Lev Steps Into… Leer más

Picador. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0330412051 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Signed by author on half-title page. Bit of bruising to upper tips. ; 135 X 32 X 216 millimeters; 320 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Picador, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 360 pages.
Lev is a man who has come down in the world. Formerly a Russian biological weapons scientist, he is now a chauffeur in "that new Russia where physicists wash windows and engineers drive trams". So he decides to take his somewhat lethal knowledge abroad; to offer his services to a foreign government. But on the way from the airport his taxi is stopped and robbed. It is in this helpless state, alone and adrift in Delhi, that Lev meets Maya. Beautiful, ferocious and utterly original, Maya has been waiting for a man like Lev to walk into her life. Briefly they come together and Lev steps into the marvelous world that is Maya. But then something terrible happens - something for which the Russian scientist is blamed. The Brainfever Bird is an exquisite love story, a tale of… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.