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The Silentiary

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In post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing from the author of Zama. The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in middle management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary precondition, which the crowded and noisily industrialized city always denies him, however often he and his mother and wife move in search of it. He thinks of embarking on his writing career with something simple, a detective novel, and ponders the possibility of choos- ing a victim among the people he knows and planning a crime as if he himself were the killer. That way, he hopes, his book might finally begin to take shape.
Request Code : ZLIB.IO16873771
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
New York Review Books
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
1681375621
ISBN 13:
9781681375625
ISBN:
9781681375632, 168137563X, 9781681375625, 1681375621

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