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A novel of a life lived on the margins of Europe where East and West uneasily meet. At home in neither his native land nor his adopted country, the narrator writes from a fictional border state that transcends national boundaries.

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This short novel. . .speaks suggestively about the agony of 'hoping against hope,' the intensity of expecting the 'great indescribable' to happen, as in Ibsen's tragedies and Beckett's Waiting for Godot." —World Literature Today

"Offers a rare, brilliantly realized account of a lost man in the grip of Western excess, emotionally crippled by a world that is subsuming his own." —Translation Review

Border State Writings from an Unbound Europe

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    A Paperback / softback by Tonu Onnepalu, Madli Puhvel

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      Publisher Northwestern University Press
      Published 30 May 2000
      ISBN-13 9780810117808
      978-0810117808
      ISBN-10 0810117800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A novel of a life lived on the margins of Europe where East and West uneasily meet. At home in neither his native land nor his adopted country, the narrator writes from a fictional border state that transcends national boundaries.

      Trade Review
      This short novel. . .speaks suggestively about the agony of 'hoping against hope,' the intensity of expecting the 'great indescribable' to happen, as in Ibsen's tragedies and Beckett's Waiting for Godot." —World Literature Today

      "Offers a rare, brilliantly realized account of a lost man in the grip of Western excess, emotionally crippled by a world that is subsuming his own." —Translation Review

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