Sounds Familiar or The Beast of Artek

Zinovy Zinik

nakladatel	Divus
rok vydání	2016
vydání	1.
jazyk	anglicky
stran	248
ISBN	978-80-86450-90-2

A Gothic Novel by Zinovy Zinik. Limited edition on fine Munken paper with 11 full page illustrations and cover painting by Lukáš Malina, renowned Czech artist and member of Weird Scene circle. Sim Golos, a Russian expat in London and amateur sound engineer, is obsessed with recording all kinds of bizarre noises he comes across in the din and clatter of daily life - as if in search of some mysterious sound he lost in childhood. In a local gym, he forms a group of eccentric London friends: a female taxidermist artist who works as a gym instructor, two bodybuilders - who own the gym - and an unemployed handyman with his barmaid girlfriend. Over the course of this Gothic thriller, it becomes clear that Sim's abused Soviet childhood and the lives of the other characters are intricately...