Kleinzeit

Author(s): Russell Hoban

Fiction

'An original ... a delight to read' The Times On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a quest involving, among other things, a glockenspiel, sheets of yellow paper, Orpheus, the Underground and that dirty chimpanzee, Death. 'Kleinzeit, is a sort of holy fool, a fierce, lonely intelligence desperately trying to make sense of a hopeless world. A tour de force ... entirely delightful' Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

General Information

  • : 9780241485705
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Classics
  • : 0.154
  • : 01 January 2021
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Russell Hoban
  • : Paperback
  • : 2107
  • : English
  • : 208
  • : FLC