Rex
Subtitle: a novel
By: José́ Manuel Prieto ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
Contributors: Allen, Esther, 1962-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780802118790
Work titles: Rex
Description: A Proust-worshipping narrator falls into the dangerous world of the Russian mob in this novel run amok by the author of Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire.
Notes: Third and final book in the trilogy that began with Enciclopedia de una vida en Rusia (Encyclopedia of a life in Russia; 1997), and Livadia, or Mariposas noctirnos del imperio ruso (1999; published in English as Nocturnal butterflies of the Russian empire, 2000).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-321).