The Paradise Eater [antikvár]

John Ralston Saul was educated in Canada, Francé and England, gaining his doctorate with a thesis on de Gaulle at King's College, London. His business career began in Paris where he set up an investment company - and culminated when he returned to Canada to jóin Petro Canada in Calgary. There, while serving as Assistant to the founder and Chairman of the national oil company, Saul published his first növel, The Birds of Prey (Mort d'un Général), in 1977 to universal acclaim. This növel, which has sold close to two millión copies worldwide and has been translated throughout Europe and Asia, became a cause célébre. With this success, Saul plunged into writing full time and moved from investigating the secret heart of Francé to uncovering the machinations of big business, the arms trade and the conflicts between guerrilla movements and our own 'stable' world. These obsessions led him to travel deep behind the lines with rebel groups in the Sahara and in the Burmese jungle, as well as to penetrate the universe of third world dictators, drug dealers and art smugglers. His two novels, Baraka and The Next Best Thing, won him critical acclaim for his style, which has been compared to that of Conrad and Greene. Like The Birds of Prey, these two novels have been translated into over ten languages. He writes frequently for The Spectator in London, The Globe and Mail in Toronto and Le Monde in Paris.