The Truth About Sascha Knisch - Softcover

Fioretos, Aris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 022407685X ISBN 13: 9780224076852

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2006

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Review:

Like a cunning diplomat who gets the Foreign Secretary of another country drunk at a dinner party with an eye to obtaining territorial concessions, the Swedish novelist, Aris Fioretos, in this noir-ish novel of 1928 Berlin, serves up an intoxicating brew distilled of equal parts murder mystery, sexological rumination, and historical farce. Having downed this admixture, the giddy reader is likely to redraw the borders of those warring, loving neighbours, the masculine and feminine. (Jeffrey Eugenides)

This incredible novel about a young man's odyssey through the sexual underground of Weimar Germany is either a comic tragedy or a tragic comedy, and it is Aris Fioretos' great achievement to keep you guessing past the last page. The Truth about Sascha Knisch is worldly, audacious, haunting in its candour and unremittingly disturbing in its prescience. Fioretos is without a doubt one of Europe's most gifted writers. (Jane Kramer)

A masterpiece. (Frankfurter Rundschau)

Playful, attentive and deft...dense, colourful writing. (Times Literary Supplement)

From the Publisher:

An exquisite erotic entertainment set in Weimar Germany

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 022407685X
• ISBN 13: 9780224076852
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320