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Conspirators
Michael Andre Bernstein
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Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire. When one of his family is murdered the Count gives broad police powers to his spymaster, Jacob Tausk. In the wake of new terrorist attacks, a mysterious preacher appears - trailing a band of fanatical disciples. Soon Tausk finds himself serving two masters: the Count and the richest man in the province, Moritz Rotenburg, whose only son is burning for revolution. Compelling and brilliantly imagined, Conspirators evokes the venerable Habsburg empire on the edge of collapse and ... Read more
Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire. When one of his family is murdered the Count gives broad police powers to his spymaster, Jacob Tausk. In the wake of new terrorist attacks, a mysterious preacher appears - trailing a band of fanatical disciples. Soon Tausk finds himself serving two masters: the Count and the richest man in the province, Moritz Rotenburg, whose only son is burning for revolution. Compelling and brilliantly imagined, Conspirators evokes the venerable Habsburg empire on the edge of collapse and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571221332
SKU
KEX0228349
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About Michael Andre Bernstein
Michael Andre Bernstein was raised and educated in Europe, Canada, and the United States. He is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, LA Times Book Review and The New Republic.
Reviews for Conspirators
'A deeply original novel, grand and far-seeing in its conception... The qualities of the writing suggested to this reader the work of Musil and Mann and, in the closeness of its observations, Proust.' Paula Fox