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Indigo - A Novel
Setz, Clemens J.; Benjamin, Ross
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Description for Indigo - A Novel
hardcover. An eerie and uncanny mystery, reminiscent of early Pynchon, and the American debut of one of the most acclaimed young European novelists. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 33. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Ltd United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780871402684
SKU
V9780871402684
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About Setz, Clemens J.; Benjamin, Ross
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.
Reviews for Indigo - A Novel
"It's inevitable that Setz will be compared to Thomas Pynchon, for his narrative has a similar complexity, nuance and, yes, even paranoia."
Kirkus Reviews "Alarming and surreally beautiful… Part postmodern thriller, part essay into the darker reaches of prejudice, Indigo offers a set of terrifying hypotheses, many of which remain hauntingly unrealized. Setz has conducted a masterly interrogation of ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews "Alarming and surreally beautiful… Part postmodern thriller, part essay into the darker reaches of prejudice, Indigo offers a set of terrifying hypotheses, many of which remain hauntingly unrealized. Setz has conducted a masterly interrogation of ... Read more