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  • Published: 15 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099563464
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99

Leeches




A thrilling adventure into an underground world of secret societies and conspiracy theories.

A young journalist sees a man slap a beautiful woman on the shore of the Danube. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later a mysterious package arrives. As he delves deeper trying to decipher the contents, he finds himself unravelling a terrible conspiracy that seems destined to end in tragedy...

  • Published: 15 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099563464
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

David Albahari

David Albahari was born in Serbia in 1948. He founded, and was for many years the editor in chief of, Pismo, a magazine of world literature. He is also an accomplished translator of Anglo-American literature. He lives in Calgary, Canada.

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Praise for Leeches

A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies

Die Zeit

Kafka for our times

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot

Kate Saunders, The Times

Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history

Claire Allfree, Metro

Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough

La Vie Littéraire