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Synopsis
A highly contagious book virus, a literary society and a Snow Queen-like disappearing author 'She came to realise that under one reality there's always another. And another one under that.' Only very special people are chosen by children's author Laura White to join 'The Society', an elite group of writers in the small town of Rabbit Back. Now a tenth member has been selected: Ella, literature teacher and possessor of beautifully curving lips. But soon Ella discovers that the Society is not what it seems. What is its mysterious ritual, 'The Game'? What explains the strange disappearance that occurs at Laura's winter party, in a whirlwind of snow? Why are the words inside books starting to rearrange themselves? Was there once another tenth member, before her? Slowly, disturbing secrets that had been buried come to light...In this chilling, darkly funny novel, the uncanny brushes up against the everyday in the most beguiling and unexpected of ways.
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'Wonderfully knotty... a very grown-up fantasy masquerading as quirky fable. Unexpected, thrilling and absurd' Catherine Taylor, Sunday Telegraph
'Unnerving, enigmatic... Hints of Let the Right One In and Haruki Murakami's elliptical early science fiction novels flavour a creepy tale about mutating books, buried secrets and ghostly encounters' James Lovegrove, Financial Times
'The Rabbit Back Literature Society is a lobster pot of a book... an exquisite balance of suspense, precision-engineered structure and darkly playful humour... fascinating. And fun' 5-star review, SFX
'Charming and intriguing, switching from playful to creepy to heartfelt and back again... good fun' Bookbag
'Mixes the small-town surrealism of Twin Peaks with the clandestine-society theme of Donna Tartt's The Secret History' The List
'Charming, chilling and gripping from its very first page' Bizarre
'A novel about big questions ... wonderful characters... amazing' TQR Stories
'I can't even begin to try to describe this book. Nor... to do justice to its eerie nuttiness. But if, like me, you're still a little bit obsessed with who killed Laura Palmer, you'll love it' Harper's Bazaar
'A playful fantasy... [Jääskeläinen] deftly plumbs the neuroses of artistic vanity and obsession... I felt the slow pulse that guided the book; it skirts genres and stays refreshingly weird' Quadrapheme
'Veering between infectious comedy and dark thriller, this is a beguiling read' The Lady
'Is Jääskeläinen the new Murakami? Answers to the editor' Glasgow Herald
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'Lola Rogers' admirable translation catches both the darkness and playful wit of Jääskeläinen's original' Tablet
'Brilliant' --Worm Hole
'I can't even begin to try to describe this book. Nor... to do justice to its eerie nuttiness. But if, like me, you re still a little bit obsessed with who killed Laura Palmer, you ll love it' --Harper's Bazaar
About the Author
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, born in 1966, is one of Finland's best-kept secrets. A novelist and short-story writer, he is well known for his fantasy and sci-fi narratives and has twice won the Kuvastaja Fantasy Prize given by Finland's Tolkien Society and four times won the Atorax Award for Fantasy. He teaches Finnish language and literature and is the father of three sons.
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- PublisherPushkin Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1782270434
- ISBN 13 9781782270430
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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