A Man Lies Dreaming
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1612195040 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Soon Wolf is enmeshed in the search for a murderer, uncovering a conspiracy with links to the identity he left behind in Nuremberg and will go to any length to keep hidden. (Mar.)\n . The noir elements are deadeningly predictable and Wolf's investigation quickly turns into a game of spot-the-historical-figure. From Publishers Weekly Even devoted fans of revisionist fiction might blanche at the premise of Tidhar's latest, which supposes that the National Socialists lost their bid for Germany in 1933, after which the country fell into the hands of Jewish Communists in an event known as the Fall. One of their number is Wolf, a hard-bitten detective with a mysterious past, who b
Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining another world. The novel that stunned—and scandalized—Europe comes to AmericaWolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London’s gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been—and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. And when Wolf and Shomer's stories converge, we find ourselves drawn into a novel both shocking and profoundly haunting.At once a perfectly pitched hard-boiled noir thriller (with an utterly shocking twist) and a “Holocaust novel like no other” (The Guardian), A Man Lies Dreaming is a masterful, unforgettable literary experiment from “one of our best and most adventurous writers” (Locus).
He grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and in South Africa but currently lives in London. . He won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella and has been nominated for many other prizes. LAVIE TIDHAR is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Violent Century, Osama, and many other books
Holocaust noir Crazy amazing book. This is what a Holocaust book by Tarantino and Primo Levi would have been. Five Stars The book came in on time and as described. A rare book Really more like a A rare book Joseph B. Keough Really more like a 4.5, though I have more reservations than that score would typically indicate.Plenty has been said about the plot, so I won't bother recounting it. Yep, Hitler. Yep, kinda funny! Yep, very uncomfortable at times. But what I didn't expect was how uncomfortable it made me to see Hitler abused, the way he's abused in this book. Of course, that sort of vengeful, smirking abuse is in part justified by the frame story, which implies that this Hitler and his many indignities are dreamed up by a Jewish pulp fiction writer in Auschwitz. But on the other . .5, though I have more reservations than that score would typically indicate.Plenty has been said about the plot, so I won't bother recounting it. Yep, Hitler. Yep, kinda funny! Yep, very uncomfortable at times. But what I didn't expect was how uncomfortable it made me to see Hitler abused, the way he's abused in this book. Of course, that sort of vengeful, smirking abuse is in part justified by the frame story, which implies that this Hitler and his many indignities are dreamed up by a Jewish pulp fiction writer in Auschwitz. But on the other