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The Requisitions - Couverture souple

Lopez-Barrantes, Samuél

 
9798989580309: The Requisitions
Couverture souple
ISBN 13 : 9798989580309
Editeur : Kingdom Anywhere, 2023

Synopsis

"Vivid in a way that is almost tangible ... In spite of its grim subject matter, The Requisitions is a strangely and luminously hopeful novel." Raina Lipsitz, The Metropolitan Review

When the sirens begin, the professor is sitting at the Astoria Café.

In this historical metafiction set in Nazi-occupied Poland, a present-day narrator trying to make sense of his past recounts the story of Viktor, a disillusioned academic forced into the Łódź Ghetto, Elsa, a captive Gestapo secretary, and her estranged fiancé, Carl, a troubled policeman whose fixation with the past is pushing him towards unspeakable cruelty.

Inspired by Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, Laurent Binet's HhHH, and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, The Requisitions is a deeply researched historical metafiction about the difference between history and memory, and how to remain human during inhumane times.

"Original, deftly crafted, memorable [...] one of those novels that will linger in the mind of the reader longer after the book has been finished and set back upon the shelf." James A. Cox, The Midwest Review

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À propos de l'auteur

SAMUÉL LOPEZ-BARRANTES lives in Paris, where he leads historical walks on modernism, existentialism, and the Nazi Occupation of Paris. The Requisitions is his second novel and the flagship novel for Kingdom Anywhere, an independent anglophone publisher based in Paris, founded by Lopez-Barrantes and his wife, the photographer Augusta Sagnelli. Find out more at ifnotparis.substack.com

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Éditeur
Kingdom Anywhere
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798989580309
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
229
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