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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
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Mystery
Hailed as “one to watch ” by the UK’s 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 fiction—and more like the
key to his
own lost past. Memory and amnesia, fiction and reality,
destiny and
randomness, heaven and hell—all converge to form an
engrossing gothic
story that is sure to appeal to fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s
The Shadow of the Wind.
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