Seven Lies

A Novel

6 October 2006

Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.

Description

“Superb. . . . Every page of this narration bears examples of Lasdun’s own poetic mastery. . . . Shockingly vivid.”—Time Out

Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, Seven Lies tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a young East German, whose yearnings for love, glory, and freedom express themselves in a lifelong fantasy of going to America. By a series of increasingly dangerous maneuvers, he makes this fantasy come true, his past seemingly locked behind the Berlin Wall and a new life of unbounded bliss ahead of him. But then his world begins to fall apart.

Reviews

"Grimly funny, painfully sad, and beautifully written." — Marcus Eliason, Associated Press

"Poet James Lasdun confirms his career as an important novelist. . . . Macabre but sensationally authentic." — New York Sun

"A surprising and nuanced novel . . . that skillfully blends the political and the personal." — The New Republic

"Pitch-perfect. . . . And what finely wrought characters. . . . [Seven Lies’s] complex plot falls into place with the irresistible inevitability of a clockwork’s gears and levers." — Toronto Globe and Mail

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140 x 208 mm • 210 pages

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