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The Truth About Sascha Knisch
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‘My name is Knisch, Sascha Knisch, and six days ago my life was in perfect order.’Knisch, who works as a projectionist at the Apollo movie theatre, is a person with special sexual habits. One night, he sees the enigmatic Dora Wilms. A week later, she is dead and Knisch is charged with murder. As he tries to clear his name, he discovers a scientific conspiracy and is drawn into the rich tangle of a story in which nothing is as it seems. How can he prove what didn’t happen? What goes on at the Foundation for Sexual Research? And why is it important to have testicles?A biological thriller set in the steamy underworlds of Weimar Berlin in the sweltering summer of 1928, The Truth about Sascha Knisch deals with the so-called ‘sexual question’, its lures and seductiveness, dangers and temptations, but also with the shrewd passion between two young people in a Germany at the brink of disaster.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.225 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.9 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Pages | 320 |
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| Year Published | 2007-2-1 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 009948899X |
| About The Author | Of Greek and Austrian descent, Aris Fioretos was born and raised in Sweden. He was educated at Stockholm and Yale Universities. The recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships, he has published several books in his native country, and also rendered the works of Vladimir Nabokov into Swedish. The Truth about Sascha Knisch is his first novel in English. Aris Fioretos lives with his wife and daughter in Berlin, where he is currently the counsellor for culture at the Swedish Embassy. |
In this noir-ish novel of 1928 Berlin, Aris Fioretos serves up an intoxicating brew distilled of equal parts murder mystery, sexological rumination, and historical farce | |
| Other text | Fioretos has many similarities to Vladimir Nabokov… His prose style is playful, attentive and deft… By the end of this novel, the truth about Sascha Knisch may remain uncertain, but the formidable qualities of his creator have been well established |
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