The madonna on the moon
By: Rolf Bauerdick ; translated from the German by David Dollenmayer
Contributors: Dollenmayer, David B.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780307594129
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Wie die Madonna auf den Mond Kam
Description: Living in a tiny 1950s Carpathian mountains village isolated from the communism of Eastern Europe, Pavel Botev attends a school taught by an exiled alcoholic who quietly orders him to kill the new Party Secretary, an event that changes the course of the boy's life.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book."

"Originally published as Wie die Madonna auf den Mond kam in Germany: 2009."--T.o. verso.