Title: The Manual of Detection
Author(s): Jedediah Berry
Language: English
Published: 19 February 2009
Publisher: PENGUIN group
ISBN: 9781594202117
Extension: EPUB
Size: 268 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Mystery, Mystery & Detective - General, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, American Mystery & Suspense Fiction, Fiction - Mystery, Detective, Crime, Literary, Mystery fiction, Private investigators, Criminals, American First Novelists, Femmes fatales
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Mystery, Thriller
"This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka." -The New Yorker
Reminiscent of imaginative fiction from Jorge Luis Borges to Jasper Fforde yet dazzlingly original, The Manual of Detection marks the debut of a prodigious young talent.
Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at a huge, imperious detective agency located in an unnamed city always slick with rain. When Travis Sivart, the agency's most illustrious detective, is murdered, Unwin is suddenly promoted and must embark on an utterly bizarre quest for the missing investigator that leads him into the darkest corners of his soaking, somnolent city.
What ensues is a noir fantasy of exquisite craftsmanship, as taut as it is mind-blowing, that draws readers into a dream world that will change what they think about how they think.
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