Who is Martha?
By: Marjana Gaponenko ; translated by Arabella Spencer
Contributors: Spencer, Arabella, translator
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781939931139
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Patients; Cancer; Lungs; Hotels; Ornithologists; Fiction
Work titles: Wer ist Martha?
Description: "96-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski foregoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha--the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons--died. Levadski himself has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He may have devoted much of his existence to studying birds, but now he befriends a hotel butler and another elderly guest, who also doesn't have much time left, to share in the lively escapades of his final days."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Translated from the German.

First published: Berlin : Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012.