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Springer International Publishing AG Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction
Book SynopsisThis open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in “in-between” positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is “normal” or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences. Table of Contents1. Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all2. One Hand Clapping: The Loneliness of Motherhood in Lucia Berlin’s “Tiger Bites”3. “their mothers, and their fathers, and everyone in between”: Queering Motherhood in Trans Parent Memoirs by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Trystan Reese4. Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness5. Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Farhoud’s Happiness Has a Slippery Tail6. From Survivor to Im/migrant Motherhood and Beyond: Margit Silberstein’s Postmemorial Autobiography, Förintelsens Barn7. The (M)other’s Voice: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Swiss Writing by Women8. Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti9. A Plea for Motherhood: Mothering and Writing in Contemporary Norwegian Literature
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Diaphanes AG Pynchon′s Sound of Music
Book SynopsisPynchon's Sound of Music is dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and interpreting the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon’s work. An original mix of close and distant readings, this monograph employs a variety of disciplines—from literary studies and musicology to philosophy, media theory, and history—to explain Pynchon through music and music through Pynchon. Encyclopedic and eclectic in its approach, Pynchon’s Sound of Music discusses the author’s use of instruments such as the kazoo, harmonica, and saxophone and embarks on close readings of the most salient and musically tantalizing passages. Zooming out to a bird’s eye view, Christian Hänggi puts Pynchon’s historical musical references and allusions into perspective to trace the trends and tendencies in the development of the author’s interest in music. A treasure trove for fans and an invaluable source for future scholarship, this book includes the Pynchon Playlist, a catalog of over 900 musical references in Pynchon’s oeuvre, and an exhaustive index of more than 700 appearances of musical instruments.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Writing Underground: Reflections on Samizdat
Book SynopsisIn this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the underground phenomenon. After devoting considerable attention to the circle surrounding the band The Plastic People of the Universe and their manager, the poet Ivan M. Jirous, Machovec turns outward to examine the broader concept of the underground, comparing the Czech incarnation not only with the movements of its Central and Eastern European neighbors, but also with those in the world at large. In one essay, he reflects on the so-called Půlnoc Editions, which published illegal texts in the darkest days of the late forties and early fifties. In other essays, Machovec examines the relationship between illegal texts published at home (samizdat) and those smuggled out to be published abroad (tamizdat), as well as the range of literature that can be classified as samizdat, drawing attention to movements frequently overlooked by literary critics. In his final, previously unpublished essay, Machovec examines Jirous’s “Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival” not as a merely historical document, but as literature itself.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic From Laughter to Forgetting: A Source-Book of
Book SynopsisA comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde. In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-garde has been increased attention to texts and traditions that have long stood in the shadow of the French, German, and British traditions that dominate the canon. Yet this more expansive view of European modernism and the avant-garde has been hindered by the limited range of texts available outside the original languages. This book addresses that problem by offering a wide-ranging selection of literary, theoretical, and documentary sources from one of the most dynamic and original European avant-garde traditions: that of the first Czechoslovak Republic and of the Bohemian lands. The Czech avant-garde is in many respects the ideal “alternative” avant-garde to present in detail to a wider readership: it tracks Central European developments and was often influential internationally while being deeply embedded in particular cultural dynamics that produced original forms. This volume returns interwar Czech avant-garde writings to their place as a firmly embedded component of the European avant-garde.Table of Contents1. The Laughter of the Avant-Garde (1918-1929): Proletarian Art, Poetism, Constructivism Section IntroductionCapek, Karel: “Kritika slov”Capek, Josef: Nejskromnejší umení [extracts]Weiner, Richard: Trásnicky dejinných dnu [extracts]Šalda, F. X.: “O úpadku literatury—i mnohých vecí jiných... ”Hora, Josef: “K novému umení”U. S. DevetsilNeumann, Stanislav K.: “Devetsil”Teige, Karel: “Novým smerem”Teige, Karel: “Obrazy a predobrazy”Capek, Karel: “Poznámka k stati Karla Teiga ‘Obrazy a predobrazy‘“Capek, Karel: “Proc nejsem komunistou”Teige, Karel: “S novou generací”Vancura, Vladislav: “Rád nové tvorby”Götz, František: “O Hosta a o ty, kterí stojí za ním”Teige, Karel: “O expresionismu”Götz, František: “Trochu polemiky, trochu vyznání”Wolker, Jirí: “Proletárské umení”Literární skupina: “Naše nadeje, víra a práce”Šíma, Josef: “Reklama”Schulz, Karel: “Poetika”Štyrský, Jindrich: “Obraz”Teige, Karel: “Foto Kino Film”Teige, Karel: “Poetismus”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Papoušek na motocyklu cili o remesle básnickém”Cerník - Halas - Václavek: “Dosti Wolkera!”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Film”Teige, Karel: “Poezie pro pet smyslu”Teige, Karel: “Dada”Teige, Karel: “Vudce ceské moderny”Teige, Karel: “K teorii konstruktivismu”Kupka, František: “Tvorení v umení výtvarném”Rykr, Zdenek: TeigismTeige, Karel: “Slova, slova, slova”Štyrský, Jindrich a Toyen: “Populární uvedení do artificielismu”Voskovec, Jirí: “Želva, o které se nikdo nezminuje”Obrtel, Vít: “Harmonie”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Návestí o poetismu”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Kapka inkoustu”Teige, Karel: “Ultrafialové obrazy cili artificielismus”Teige, Karel: “Manifest poetismu”Klíma, Ladislav: Vterina a Vecnost [extracts]2. A Generation Splits: Avant-Garde in Crisis (1929-1932)Section IntroductionŠtyrský, Jindrich: “Koutek generace I”Štyrský, Jindrich: “Malá prolegomena”Václavek, Bedrich: “O marxistickou teorii umen픊toll, Ladislav: “Lidé v ‘ laboratori‘”Václavek, Bedrich: “Konec ‘revolucní‘ avantgardy”Obrtel, Vít: “O stavbe veží”Brouk, Bohuslav: “Na obranu individualismu”Obrtel, Vít: “Právo na teorii”Navrátil, Václav: “Kvart”Jakobson, Roman: “O dnešním brusicství ceském” [extracts]Capek, Josef: “Krize charakteru”3. Complicating the Real (1933-1938): Surrealism and Prague School Polyfunctionalism Section IntroductionTeige, Karel: “Básen, svet, clovek”Teige, Karel: “Deset let surrealismu” [extracts]Teige, Karel: “Socialistický Realismus a surrealismu” [extracts]Weiner, Richard: Lazebník (Poetika)Štyrský, Jindrich: “Surrealistické malírství (nekolik poznámek)”Štyrský, Jindrich: “ Surrealistická fotografie”Štyrský, Jindrich and Vítezslav Nezval: “Pokus o poznání iracionality fotografie”Štyrský, Jindrich et al: “Pokus o poznání iracionality plnicího pera”Toyen: TBCNezval, Vítezslav: “K ceskému surrealismu”Mukarovský, Jan: “Místo estetické funkce mezi ostatními”Mukarovský, Jan: “Individuum v umení”Mukarovský, Jan: “Dialektické rozpory moderního umení”Mukarovský, Jan: “Francouzská poezie Karla Capka”Ladislav Novomeský: “Cesko-slovenský kulturní vztah“Kalandra, Záviš: “Nadskutecno v Surrealismu“Kalandra, Záviš: “Cin André Bretona“Kalandra, Záviš: “Princip slasti a princip reality v umení“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Slovo o situaci nadrealismu u nás“Brouk, Bohuslav: “Máchuv kult“Cerný, Václav: “Surrealismus proti proudu“4. Deaths of the Avant-garde (1938-1942): The Myth of EverydaynessSection IntroductionNavrátil, Václav: “K novému mýtu“Navrátil, Václav: “O krizi krizeologie“Navrátil, Václav: “O smutku, lásce a jiných vecech“Rykr, Zdenek: “K našemu modernímu umení“Soucková, Milada: “K novému románu“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Smysl moderního umení“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Svet, v nemž žijeme“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Umení napodobí skutecnost“Kolár, Jirí: Nový don Quijote [extracts]
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Leiden University Press Big Books in Times of Big Data
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Editorial A Contracorriente 2666: en búsqueda de la totalidad perdida
Book SynopsisEs 2666 de Roberto Bolano una novela total? Pueden coexistir fragmentos y totalidades en un mismo libro? Hay una columna vertebral que estructure la multitud de espacios, personajes y temas representados en 2666? Estas y otras preguntas son el objeto de estudio del presente libro, donde la cuestion de la totalidad - concepto omnipresente en los estudios del escritor chileno, si bien poco explorado - es el tema principal.
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Cambridge University Press Russian Literature since 1991
Book SynopsisRussian Literature since 1991 is the first comprehensive, single-volume compendium of modern scholarship on post-Soviet Russian literature. The volume encompasses broad, complex and diverse sources of literary material - from ideological and historical novels to experimental prose and poetry, from nonfiction to drama. Written by an international team of leading experts on contemporary Russian literature and culture, it presents a broad panorama of genres in post-Soviet literature such as postmodernism, magical historicism, hyper-naturalism (in drama), and the new lyricism. At the same time, it offers close readings of the most prominent works published in Russia since the end of the Soviet regime and elimination of censorship. The collection highlights the interdisciplinary context of twenty-first-century Russian literature and can be widely used both for research and teaching by specialists in and beyond Russian studies, including those in post-Cold War and post-communist world historTrade Review'The editors' stated goal was to offer 'the first attempt at an integral study of Russian literature after the breakup of the Soviet Union' … In this they have succeeded admirably. This collection offers a simultaneously readable and thoughtful assessment of approximately forty texts and forty writers and a compelling overview of broad literary trends and developments.' Margaret Ziolkowski, The Russian Review'This richly detailed compendium of essays will be of interest to scholars, students of contemporary Russian literature and culture, and pedagogues' Elizabeth Skomp, The Slavonic and East European ReviewTable of Contents1. The burden of freedom: Russian literature after Communism Evgeny Dobrenko and Mark Lipovetsky; 2. Recycling of the Soviet Evgeny Dobrenko; 3. (Post)ideological novel Serguei Alex. Oushakine; 4. Historical novel Kevin M. F. Platt; 5. Dystopias and catastrophe tales after Chernobyl Eliot Borenstein; 6. Magical historicism Alexander Etkind; 7. Petropoetics Ilya Kalinin; 8. Postmodernist novel Mark Lipovetsky; 9. Narrating trauma Helena Goscilo; 10. (Auto)biographical prose Marina Balina; 11. The legacy of the Underground Poets Catherine Ciepiela; 12. New lyrics Stephanie Sandler; 13. Narrative poetry Ilya Kukulin; 14. New drama Boris Wolfson; Works cited.
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University of Minnesota Press None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff
Book SynopsisHow the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own If ever a moment and a writer were made for each other, that time is now and Jeff VanderMeer is that writer. Reaching more and more readers as his fantastic fiction delves deeper and deeper into the true weirdness of our day, VanderMeer presents a unique opportunity to explore the cultural frictions and fault lines in today’s—and tomorrow’s— literary landscape. In the first book-length study of this provocative writer, Benjamin J. Robertson focuses on the three major series that have propelled VanderMeer to prominence (his Vennis fictions, Ambergris novels, and Southern Reach Trilogy) as well as his recent stand-alone novel Borne. Most salient for Robertson is how VanderMeer grapples with the transformation of human meaning and being in the contemporary moment. None of This Is Normal reveals how VanderMeer creates fictions that directly address our Anthropocene epoch, in which humanity must reckon with the unprecedented nature of its impact on the environment and with the consequent obsolescence of its methods of representing itself in this altered world. In Robertson’s reading it becomes startlingly clear that certain fiction, especially when willing to abandon humanist assumptions about history, has the power to not simply show us a world “out there” but to actively participate in that world. As realist fiction and even science fiction conventionally reduce the scale and complexity of the Anthropocene to human-sized dimensions, None of This Is Normal shows how VanderMeer’s work conjures what Robertson calls a “fantastic materiality”: a reality that stands apart from us as a model of thinking, irreducible to our own.Trade Review"None of This Is Normal is the first book-length study of the weird fiction of Jeff VanderMeer. Benjamin J. Robertson not only highlights the beauty and power of VanderMeer's fiction, but also shows how this writing is central to any attempt to think through the plight of humanity in what has come to be called the Anthropocene."—Steven Shaviro, author of The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism"This spirited book disturbs the new normal of the Anthropocene by way of the ‘New Weird’ in Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. At once a meditation on fantastic materiality and a step toward life after aftermath, this first dedicated study of VanderMeer tells a new story about humans and nonhumans both."—Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"None of This Is Normal offers readers a rich, extended conversation between VanderMeer and Robertson, pointing out how crucial literary texts are to theorizings of themselves." —American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: All of This Is Normal1. Ambergris Rules: Genre and Materiality in the Anthropocene2. Let Me Tell You about the City: The Veniss Milieu and the Problem of Setting3. No One Makes It Out, There May Be a Way: Ambergris as Words and World4. There Is Nothing but Border. There Is No Border.: Area X and the Weird PlanetConclusion: Life after AftermathAfterwordJeff VanderMeerNotes
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University of Minnesota Press Brouhaha: Worlds of the Contemporary
Book SynopsisWithin the hypermediated age where knowledge production is decentered and horizontal, the experience of lived time has become a concordance of temporalities. The literary imagination, which was emblematic of modernity and thoroughly connected to the book as a support structure, has now become integrated within a much vaster regime of publication. Thought concerning the world is from now on a thought concerning a plurality of worlds. By way of six guiding threads (exposition, media, controversy, publication, institutionalization, archaeology), this essay describes the transformation of cultural forms and visions of history.
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Barcharts, Inc American Literature: Reference Guide
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Graywolf Press,U.S. Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
Book SynopsisCharles Baxter's new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext. In the mold of those books, Baxter shares years of wisdom and reflection on what makes fiction work, including essays that were first given as craft talks at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. The essays here range from brilliant thinking on the nature of wonderlands in the fiction of Haruki Murakami and other fabulist writers, to how request moments function in a story. Baxter is equally at home tackling a thorny matter such as charisma (which intersects with political figures like the disastrous forty-fifth US president) as he is bringing new interest to subjects such as list-making in fiction. Amid these craft essays, an interlude of two personal essays-the story of a horrifying car crash and an introspective "letter to a young poet"-add to the intimate nature of the book. The final essay reflects on a lifetime of writing, and closes with a memorable image of Baxter as a boy, waiting at the window for a parent who never arrives and filling that absence with stories. Wonderlands will stand alongside his prior work as an insightful and lasting work of criticism.
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Latin American Literature at the Millennium:
Book SynopsisLatin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João Gilberto Noll, and Wilson Bueno to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place. The book raises vital considerations for understanding the region’s transition into the twenty-first century, and for evaluating Latin American authors’ representations of everyday place and modes of belonging.Trade Review“A major contribution to the study of the aesthetics and material practices of literature in Latin America today. Engaging with the Hispanophone and the Lusophone world, Raynor provides a useful account of questions of space, mobility and globalization. Compelling in its new readings of Latin American authors that have redefined literary writing in Spanish and Portuguese: Bolaño, Luiselli, Ruffato, Noll, among others.” -- Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado * author of Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature *"Uneven experiences of globalization in Spanish America and Brazil—as captured in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century cultural production—are the focus of Latin American Literature at the Millennium. With rich documentation and textured close readings, Raynor breathes new life into discussions on migration, acceleration, spaciality and the multitude. Through its chapters, the travails of local spaces in an integrated world come to bear on the literary historiography of the region." -- Héctor Hoyos * author of Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel *"Local Lives, Global Spaces outlines the relationship between globalization and literature in Latin America, offering a key contribution to an exciting, emerging field. Critics and scholars working in the fields of Spanish American and Brazilian literature, narrative theory, and contemporary fiction will also benefit from this book." -- Catalina Quesada-Gómez * co-editor of Cámara de eco. Homenaje a Severo Sarduy *"Dr. Raynor’s book approaches globalization from an unexpected and little explored angle. Through detailed textual analysis, careful contextualization of literary works, and perspicacious dialogue with critical works, Dr. Raynor shows how Latin American literature questions entrenched (though not immutable) dynamics of power and, thereby proposes other ways of understanding not only the region’s cultural production, but also how we understand the role that world literature plays in interrogating relations of political and cultural power." -- Leila Lehnen * author of Citizenship and Crises in Contemporary Brazilian Literature *"Specialists on the Latin American novel and those with an interest in Brazilian literature constitute the primary audience for this book." * Hispania *"This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Latin American fiction." * Luso-Brazilian Review *“A major contribution to the study of the aesthetics and material practices of literature in Latin America today. Engaging with the Hispanophone and the Lusophone world, Raynor provides a useful account of questions of space, mobility and globalization. Compelling in its new readings of Latin American authors that have redefined literary writing in Spanish and Portuguese: Bolaño, Luiselli, Ruffato, Noll, among others.” -- Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado * author of Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question *"Uneven experiences of globalization in Spanish America and Brazil—as captured in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century cultural production—are the focus of Latin American Literature at the Millennium. With rich documentation and textured close readings, Raynor breathes new life into discussions on migration, acceleration, spaciality and the multitude. Through its chapters, the travails of local spaces in an integrated world come to bear on the literary historiography of the region." -- Héctor Hoyos * author of Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel *"Local Lives, Global Spaces outlines the relationship between globalization and literature in Latin America, offering a key contribution to an exciting, emerging field. Critics and scholars working in the fields of Spanish American and Brazilian literature, narrative theory, and contemporary fiction will also benefit from this book." -- Catalina Quesada-Gómez * co-editor of Cámara de eco. Homenaje a Severo Sarduy *"Dr. Raynor’s book approaches globalization from an unexpected and little explored angle. Through detailed textual analysis, careful contextualization of literary works, and perspicacious dialogue with critical works, Dr. Raynor shows how Latin American literature questions entrenched (though not immutable) dynamics of power and, thereby proposes other ways of understanding not only the region’s cultural production, but also how we understand the role that world literature plays in interrogating relations of political and cultural power." -- Leila Lehnen * author of Citizenship and Crises in Contemporary Brazilian Literature *"Specialists on the Latin American novel and those with an interest in Brazilian literature constitute the primary audience for this book." * Hispania *"This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Latin American fiction." * Luso-Brazilian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Patterning the Local within the Global 1 Migration Chronotopes: Imagining Time and Space in Two Brazilian Novels 2 Speed Control: The Politics of Mobility in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Its Theatrical Adaptation by Àlex Rigola 3 Ambivalent Spaces: Allegories of Ruin in Bernardo Carvalho’s Teatro and Gilberto Noll’s Harmada 4 Another City and Another Life: Writing Multitudes in Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos Conclusion: Ser de un interval Appendix: Testing Regionalism, Migrant Narratives, and the Construction of Brazil: An Interview with Luiz Ruffato Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Verso Books The Two Lolitas
Book SynopsisDoes it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou. It all starts when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a pre-teen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heedless of her age, he becomes intimate with her. In the end she dies, and the narratormarked by her foreverremains alone. The name of the girl supplies the title of the story: Lolita.We know the girl and her story, and we know the title. But the author was Heinz von Eschwege, whose tale of Lolita appeared in 1916 under the pseudonym Heinz von Lichberg, forty years before Nabokov's celebrated novel took the world by storm. Von Lichberg later became a prominent journalist in the Nazi era, and his youthful work faded from view. The Two Lolitas uncovers a remarkable series of parallels between the two works and their authors. Did Vladimir Nabokov, author of an imperishable Lolita who remained in Berlin until 1937, know of von Lichberg's tale? And if so, did he adopt it consciously, or was this a classic case of "cryptoamnesia," with the earlier tale existing for Nabokov as a hidden, unacknowledged memory?In this extraordinary literary detective story, Michael Maar casts new light on the making of one of the most influential works of the twentieth century.Translated by Perry AndersonTrade ReviewThe essay works not only as a shining example of exhaustive research, but as a noteworthy case study of artistic copyright and intellectual property ... Surprisingly enjoyable * Time Out *Elegant * Guardian *Genuinely original piece of work, startling in its revelations and fascinating, perhaps even a little troubling, in its implications ... Striking * Irish Times *Micheal Maar is an acute analyst and an elegant stylist who can make even a wild-goose chase highly readable * Times Literary Supplement *Maar is a literary sleuth, his method a Holmesian combination of instinct, some intellectual delegation and close reading. He makes John Sutherland seem like bumbling Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. * Glasgow Herald *
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