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The Truth About Sascha Knisch
Aris Fioretos
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Description for The Truth About Sascha Knisch
Paperback. 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 again. A week later, she is dead and Knisch is charged with murder. How can he prove what didn't happen? This title is set in the steamy underworlds of Weimar Berlin in the sweltering summer of 1928. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 222.
'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? ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099488996
SKU
V9780099488996
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99-50
About Aris Fioretos
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Truth About Sascha Knisch
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
Jeffrey Eugenides 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 ... Read more
Jeffrey Eugenides 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 ... Read more