Schopenhauer's Telescope
In an unnamed European village, in the middle of a civil war, one man digs while another watches over him. Gradually, they begin to talk. Over the course of the afternoon, as the snow falls and truck-loads of villagers are corralled in the next field, we discover why they are there - not just who they are and how specific, sinister events in their country have led them to be separated by a deepening grave, but why the history of civilization is inseparable from the history of mass violence. Beautifully written, with a poet's eye for detail coupled with a chilling narrative drive, Gerard Donovan's first novel has been compared with Franz Kafka…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4711-3694-8
- EAN: 9781471136948
- Produktnummer: 15852361
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster Uk
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Gerard Donovan was born in Ireland and now lives in New York. This is his first novel.
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