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Imprint: Arcadia
Format: B Format
ISBN: 978-1-905147-86-1
Price: £ 7.99
Pages: 250 pp
Date: October 2008
{b]'An ambitious, wickedly clever story about the frailty of the flesh and the dark side of the lust for immortality'[/b]
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This Breathing World
Jose-Luis de Juan (About this author)
Translated from the Spanish by Martin Schifino and Selina Packard
In a playfully unsettling and wonderfully sensual novel, prize-winning author José Luis de Juan explores the secret history of desire and the dark desire to make history.
The first of this pair of thrillers is set in first-century Rome and relates the rise and fall of Mazuf, a homosexual Syrian scribe and renowned man of letters who is driven to kill. The second is a confession by a present-day American named Laurence; it seems to be mostly about his sexual exploits during his student days at Harvard, but we soon find out that there is a lot more to his tale than we originally bargained for. Laurence, a disaffected and sophisticated narrator is a murderer too. These mysteries are constructed as reflections of each other, like mirrors set up in a deserted ballroom, enveloping readers in the stories of the young murderers told through their own eyes.
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