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Serbia, late 1990s. Our hero, a single man, writes a regular column for a Belgrade newspaper and spends the rest of his time with his best friend, smoking weed and talking about sex, politics, and life in general. One day on the shore of the Danube he spots a man slapping a beautiful woman. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her.
A few days later he receives a mysterious manuscript which seems to mutate each time he opens it. To decipher the manuscript's arcane contents he contacts an old schoolmate, now an eccentric mathematician, and a group of men from the local Jewish community.
As the narrator delves deeper, he begins to see signs of anti-Semitism, past and present, throughout the city and he feels impelled to denounce it. But his increasingly passionate columns erupt in a scandal culminating in murder.
A few days later he receives a mysterious manuscript which seems to mutate each time he opens it. To decipher the manuscript's arcane contents he contacts an old schoolmate, now an eccentric mathematician, and a group of men from the local Jewish community.
As the narrator delves deeper, he begins to see signs of anti-Semitism, past and present, throughout the city and he feels impelled to denounce it. But his increasingly passionate columns erupt in a scandal culminating in murder.
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"A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies" (Die Zeit)
"Kafka for our times" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
"Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough" (La Vie Littéraire)
"Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot" (Kate Saunders The Times)
"Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history" (Claire Allfree Metro)
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"Kafka for our times" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
"Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough" (La Vie Littéraire)
"Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot" (Kate Saunders The Times)
"Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history" (Claire Allfree Metro)
Following in the footsteps of Foucault's Pendulum, Leeches is a cerebral adventure into the underground worlds of secret societies and conspiracy theories.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1846555426
- ISBN 13 9781846555428
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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