Part detective story, part haunting gothic tale, The Amnesiac is a journey into memory and amnesia, fiction and reality, heaven and hell. A tightly woven masterpiece of dark storytelling, this engrossing tale marks the American debut.
Penguin
July 2008
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Featuring: James Purdew
400 pages ISBN: 0143113402 EAN: 9780143113409 Trade Size Add to Wish List
Hailed as βone to watch β by the UKβs Telegraph, Sam Taylor is one of the most imaginative and innovative young writers at work today. With The Amnesiac, his United States debut, he incorporates a murder mystery and a forgotten manuscript into an exhilarating and intelligent novel. When twenty-nine-year-old James Purdew returns to England from his home in Amsterdam, it is to discover what happened during three earlier years of his life that he cannot recall. What he finds, in an old house with a tragic history, is a nineteenth-century manuscript that begins to seem less and less like a work of fictionβand more like the key to his own lost past. Memory and amnesia, fiction and reality, destiny and randomness, heaven and hellβall converge to form an engrossing gothic story that is sure to appeal to fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafonβs The Shadow of the Wind.
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