Publication

1986 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, United Kingdom

Language

English

Word Count

52,000 words, Guess

Page Count

208 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing94178

Classifications

  • DDC833/.914
  • LCCPT2662.E7 V413 1986

Description

Early one morning a doctor sets out with his son on his daily rounds through the forbidding moutainouse countryside. Their visits, a succession of grotesque portraits- a diabetic industrialist living in incestuous isolation with his half-sister; three brothers, occupying a mill set in a deep gorge, who have just strangled a bevy of exotic birds; a crippled musical prodigy whose sister locks him in a cage- lead them to a castle and a paranoid prince, whose 'almost uninterrupted monologue for a hundred pages is a virtuoso verbal performance ... an extraordinary, somber first novel.

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