The Truth About Sascha Knisch
$32.38
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2007
Summary
An exquisite erotic entertainment set in Weimar Germany.
‘My name is Knisch, Sascha Knisch, and six days ago my life was in perfect order.’
Knisch, who works as a projectionist at the Apollo movie theatre, is a person with special sexual habits. One night, he sees the enigmatic Dora Wilms. A week later, she is dead and Knisch is charged with murder. As he tries to clear his name, he discovers a scientific conspiracy and is drawn into the rich tangle of a story in which nothing…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099488996 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009948899X |
| Author: | Aris Fioretos |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2007 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A masterpiece
In this noir-ish novel of 1928 Berlin, Aris Fioretos serves up an intoxicating brew distilled of equal parts murder mystery, sexological rumination, and historical farce – Jeffrey Eugenides
Fioretos has many similarities to Vladimir Nabokov… His prose style is playful, attentive and deft… By the end of this novel, the truth about Sascha Knisch may remain uncertain, but the formidable qualities of his creator have been well established * Times Literary Supplement *
A stylish, intelligent and eerily entertaining novel * Independent on Sunday *
This incredible novel about a young man’s odyssey through the sexual underground of Weimar Germany is either a comic tragedy or a tragic comedy, and it is Aris Fioretos’ great achievement to keep you guessing past the last page. The Truth about Sascha Knisch is worldly, audacious, haunting in its candour and unremittingly disturbing in its prescience. Fioretos is without a doubt one of Europe’s most gifted writers – Jane Kramer
A masterpiece * Frankfurter Rundschau *
Aris Fioretos
Of Greek and Austrian descent, Aris Fioretos was born and raised in Sweden. He was educated at Stockholm and Yale Universities. The recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships, he has published several books in his native country, and also rendered the works of Vladimir Nabokov into Swedish. The Truth about Sascha Knisch is his first novel in English. Aris Fioretos lives with his wife and daughter in Berlin, where he is currently the counsellor for culture at the Swedish Embassy.
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