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Care of wooden floors : a novel

Oskar has entrusted an old university friend with the task of looking after his cats & taking care of his beautiful apartment. Despite the fact that Oskar has left dozens of notes covering every aspect of looking after the flat, things do not go well.

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  • "Care of wooden floors"@it

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  • "An old friend asks you to look after his two cats and his apartment. What could go wrong? Care of Wooden Floors is about how a tiny oversight can trip off a disastrous and farcical (fatal, even) chain of consequences."
  • "A bold and brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice. Oskar is a minimalist composer best known for a piece called Variations on Tram Timetables. He is married to a Californian art dealer named Laura and he lives with two cats, named after Russian composers, in an Eastern European city. But this book isn't really about Oskar. Oskar is in Los Angeles, having his marriage dismantled by lawyers. He has entrusted an old university friend with the task of looking after his cats, and taking care of his perfect, beautiful apartment. Despite the fact that Oskar has left dozens of surreally detailed notes covering every aspect of looking after the flat, things do not go well. Care of Wooden Floors is about how a tiny oversight can trip off a disastrous and farcical (fatal, even) chain of consequences. It's about a friendship between two men who don't know each other very well. It's about alienation and being alone in a foreign city. It's about the quest for perfection and the struggle against entropy. And it is, a little, about how to take care of wooden floors."
  • "Wanneer een man een week past op de Midden-Europese flat van een minimalistische componist die zijn scheiding in Los Angeles gaat regelen, morst hij wijn op de eiken vloer, hetgeen grote gevolgen heeft."
  • "Britischer Humor par excellence: sehr skurril, höchst originell Oskar ist Komponist moderner Stücke, wie etwa seinen Variationen über Trambahnfahrpläne, und mit einer amerikanischen Kunsthändlerin verheiratet. Er lebt in einer osteuropäischen Hauptstadt mit seinen beiden Katzen, die er nach russischen Komponisten benannt hat. Aber eigentlich geht es in diesem Buch nicht um Oskar, denn der ist gerade in Kalifornien, um sich scheiden zu lassen. Deshalb beauftragt er einen alten Freund aus Studienzeiten, in seiner Abwesenheit auf die exquisit eingerichtete Wohnung aufzupassen, auf dass seine Katzen und besonders der kostbare Holzboden keinen Schaden nehmen. Aber natürlich geht schief, was schiefgehen kann, eine Katastrophe reiht sich an die nächste, und trotzdem geht die Geschichte dann am Ende gut aus. Will Wiles ist Journalist und Redakteur eines englischen Magazins. Er lebt in London, 'Die nachhaltige Pflege von Holzböden' ist sein erster Roman."
  • "Oskar has entrusted an old university friend with the task of looking after his cats & taking care of his beautiful apartment. Despite the fact that Oskar has left dozens of notes covering every aspect of looking after the flat, things do not go well."@en
  • "A bold and brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice. Oskar is a minimalist composer best known for his piece 'Variations on Tram Timetables'. He lives with his wife and two cats in an unnamed Eastern European city. But this book isn't really about Oskar. Oskar is in Los Angeles, having his marriage dismantled by lawyers. Meanwhile, he has entrusted an old friend to take care of his perfect, beautiful apartment. Despite Oskar leaving extensive notes on how to keep his flat in pristine condition, a tiny oversight initiates a chain of farcical, and even fatal, disasters. 'Care of Wooden Floors' is about loneliness, friendship and the quest for, and struggle against, perfection. And it is, a little, about how to take care of wooden floors."
  • "Housesitting at the ultra-modern apartment of a composer friend in a glum Eastern European city, a British copywriter accidentally spills wine on the apartment's priceless wooden floor and endures a psychologically disastrous week of perfectionist repair and maintenance."

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  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Black humor (Literature)"@en
  • "Black humor (Literature)"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "General"@en

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  • "Care of wooden floors : a novel"
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  • "Care of wooden floors a novel"@en
  • "Care of wooden floors a novel"
  • "Die nachhaltige Pflege von Holzböden"
  • "Die nachhaltige Pflege von Holzböden Roman"
  • "Attention au parquet !"
  • "Istruzioni per la manutenzione del parquet"
  • "Istruzioni per la manutenzione del parquet"@it
  • "Sakın yere bir şey dökme!"
  • "Care of wooden floors"
  • "Care of wooden floors"@en
  • "Pravidla péče o dřevěné podlahy"

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