Conspirators

Professor Michael André Bernstein

ISBN 10: 0571221351 / ISBN 13: 9780571221356

Published by Faber & Faber, 2006

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656 pages. Text tanned, Cover slightly worn Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the bord er between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski w atches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire. When a membe.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conspirators
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571221351
• ISBN 13: 9780571221356
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire. When a member of his own family is murdered, the Count gives broad police powers to his spymaster, Jacob Tausk, a brilliant young jew whose ruthless war on terror extends into every corner of the province and beyond.
Michael Andre Bernstein's compelling first novel evokes a densely believable world on the edge of collapse, full of haunting suggestiveness of a fable or a nightmare and the erotic, mystical and apocalyptic passions of the age.

About the Author

Michael André Bernstein was raised and educated in Europe, Canada and the United States. He is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times Book Review and The New Republic.