A Man Lies Dreaming
by:
Lavie Tidhar (author)
Deep in the heart of history's most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, to escape the brutal reality of life in Auschwitz, Shomer spends his nights imagining another world - a world where a disgraced former...
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Deep in the heart of history's most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, to escape the brutal reality of life in Auschwitz, Shomer spends his nights imagining another world - a world where a disgraced former dictator now known only as Wolf ekes out a miserable existence as a low-rent PI
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00LFPBBQQ
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Man, this book is bananas: a noir set in a fascist England in 1939, with an unexpected historical figure as the gumshoe. It's bizarre to have something so high concept be so pulpy and brutal. Certainly fucks up one's notions of the role of alternate history, boy howdy. Full review at B&N Sci-Fi.
Perhaps it’s fitting that I read Hannah Tennant-Moore’ essay in The Paris Review about the merits of reading literature that disgusts and repulses us. Her words helped me through Lavie Tidhar’s disturbing work, A Man Lies Dreaming. The other thing that helped me through the scenes of, for lack of a ...
How in the world can I describe this book? It's definitely the most unusual story I've read in a long time. It jumps back and forth between the dream of a man, Shomer, who is an inmate at Auschwitz, and a pulp fiction story about an alternate history in which Germany falls to the Communists rather...
9 years ago
9 years ago
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