The Bat Tattoo (25 page)

KLEINZEIT
Russell Hoban £6.99 0 7475 5641 5

Kleinzeit. In German that means ‘hero’. Or ‘smalltime’. It depends on whom you ask.

On a day like any other, Kleinzeit gets fired. Hours later he finds himself in hospital with a pair of adventurous pyjamas and a recurring geometrical pain. Here he falls instantly in love with a beautiful night nurse called Sister. And together they are pitched headlong into a wild and flickering world of mystery…

‘Russell Hoban is one of our greatest, timeless novelists’
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First published 2002

Grateful acknowledgement is made to Hornall Brothers Music Limited for permission to quote from ‘Is That All There Is’ by Leiber/Stoller.

This electronic edition published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Copyright © 2002 by Russell Hoban

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