Nectar Fragments
Autor: | Hoffman, Michael |
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EAN: | 9781425913861 |
Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 564 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 28.06.2006 |
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The four stories of Part I vary in setting from Shinobazu Pond to 19th-century Germany, where Dostoevsky toils in despairing, poverty-stricken exile on Crime and Punishment. The "Nectar Fragments" of Part II are linked short stories set in the fictional Montreal suburb of Nectar, where an aging recluse living like a prisoner in the house in which he grew up struggles to recast the story of Abraham and Isaac into modern form. Was Abraham a saint, or a murderer? No one suspected the recluse himself had a son - who one day appears, seemingly out of nowhere...