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  • MediaDB / «The Next Big Thing" Anita Bruckner: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2004 / Julius Hertz, seventy-three years old, lives secluded and lonely in a small London apartment, filling the daytime hours with reading newspapers and walking around the city. All his life he tried to think first of all about others, and now, left alone, he feels that he has become an “exile from real life.” Maybe love will help him start over? But they had not seen the beautiful Fanny for thirty years... Anita Bruckner (b. 1928) is known to our readers from the novel “The Lake Hotel,” which received the Booker Prize in 1984 and became a bestseller in England and then in Russia. The Next Big Thing was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2002..