Description
| Product ID: | 9781801100632 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Man Lies Dreaming |
| Authors: | Author: Lavie Tidhar |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Fiction and Related items, Fiction & related items, Science fiction, Fantasy, Science fiction, Fantasy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 1939: Adolf Hitler, fallen from power, seeks refuge in a London engulfed in the throes of a very British Fascism and ekes out a miserable living as a down-at-heels private eye. But in another time and place a man lies dreaming: Shomer, once a Yiddish pulp writer, who dreams lurid tales of revenge in the hell that is Auschwitz. ''A twisted masterpiece'' Guardian 1939. In a grotty corner of London, in a flat above a shop, a private eye known as Wolf keeps his office. The city is in the throes of a very British Fascism, and Wolf is far from the life he left behind in Germany, before the Fall. Business hasn''t been good, so when a glamorous Jewish heiress comes through his door, he has no choice but to take on her case.It''s a decision Wolf will soon regret.For in another time and place, a man lies dreaming. Once a Yiddish pulp writer, but now imprisoned in a hell of humanity''s making, Shomer creates lurid tales of revenge in his sleep...Prescient, darkly funny and wholly original, the award-winning A Man Lies Dreaming is a modern fable for our time. |
| Imprint Name: | Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-15 |
