Seven Lies: A Novel - Hardcover

Lasdun, James

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266 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393057542 ISBN 13: 9780393057546

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005

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Dreaming of a life of glory and freedom in America, East German youth Stefan Vogel engages in a series of increasingly dangerous adventures to attain his goal, which involves his marriage to the woman of his dreams and an escape from dark secrets hidden behind the Berlin Wall. By the author of The Horned Man. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

"James Lasdun is a tremendous writer and Seven Lies is that rare thing, a novel that delivers on every level. It is so gripping that you want to gobble it down at a single sitting, and yet the prose is so exacting that you want to linger over every sentence" (Geoff Dyer)

"The imaginativeness with which he explores the politics of expectation and failure runs deep... Seven Lies combines the knuckle-whitening tension of a thriller with literary wit and the precision of a surgeon seeking to tease out rotten flesh. Definitely a novel to be admired" (Economist)

"A brilliant and darkly funny tale of politics and paranoia" (Christina Patterson Independent)

"Lasdun's second novel has much of the thriller about it. But its more sinuous power comes from other duplicities in Stefan's previous life: a glorious section of the book involves his teenage self plagiarising Walt Whitman to impress his mother's salon, all the while bribing a pederast janitor with aquavit to gain access to the source material" (Alex Clark Observer)

"Seven Lies...has a way of enlarging the spirit and refreshing the mind far more comprehensively than many books with twice its 200 pages" (James Buchan Guardian)

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Superb second novel, already optioned for film

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