Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts
Contributors: Clifford E. Landers (Translator)
Edition: 1st ECCO ed edition
Publisher: Ecco Pr
Published: June 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780880015837
Subjects: Suspense; Portuguese (Language) Contemporary Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - Espionage / Thriller; Literary; (Isaak),; 1894-1941; Babel§, I.; Berlin (Germany); Motion picture producers and directors
Description: A grieving film director in Rio - the nameless narrator - is visited by a Carnival dancer who leaves him with a box full of precious gems. A few days later, the dancer is dead, a man in a raincoat lurks outside the director's door, and a mysterious German producer surfaces with an irresistible offer: to make a film based on a story by the director's favorite author, the great Russian writer Isaac Babel. From this elemental framework the adventure begins.