In the Time of the Blue Ball
2002
First Published
4.08
Average Rating
91
Number of Pages
“Humane, impossible, homely and alien, Draeger's extraordinary stories are as close to dreams as fiction can be.” —China Miéville This collection of three magical stories introduce English-language readers to the detective Bobby Potemkine and his musical dog Djinn—and they come to us offering, among other things, mystery, romance, maritime-adventure, and a very angry noodle named Auguste.
Avg Rating
4.08
Number of Ratings
178
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Author
Manuela Draeger
Author · 3 books
Manuela Draeger is one of several pseudonyms used by the author Antoine Volodine (which is also a pseudonym). She is a fictional character in his book "Minor Angles". Books published under her name tend to be very short stories said by Antoine Volodine to be "related both to surrealist imagery and to British nonsense literature..."
