Indigo - Couverture rigide

Setz, Clemens J

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0871402688 ISBN 13 : 9780871402684

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014

Synopsis

In the Austrian state of Styria lies the Helianau Institute, a boarding school for children born with a mysterious condition known as Indigo syndrome. Anyone who comes near them immediately suffers from nausea and vertigo. Clemens Setz--a fictionalized doppelgänger of the author--is a young math teacher who loses his job at the school after attempting to investigate the mysterious "relocations" of several children. Fourteen years later, Robert, a former student, discovers a newspaper article about Setz's acquittal for the murder of an animal abuser. Could there be a connection between this story, which continues to haunt Robert, and the puzzling events of the past? DeLillo-esque in its exploration of alienation and anxiety, Indigo weaves together bizarre historical anecdotes, such as Edison's electrocution of an elephant, with pop cultural marginalia and pseudoscience to create a "literary work that makes its own laws . . . rich in dialogue and variety, amusing and anecdotal, but also brutal and unfathomable" (Der Spiegel).

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Clemens J. Setz is the author of two previous novels and the winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the Ernst-Willner-Preis at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2008. He lives in Austria.

Ross Benjaminis an acclaimed German-language translator. He lives in Nyack, New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0871402688
• ISBN 13: 9780871402684
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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