By Andrew Crumey
Winner of Scotland's Saltire Prize for top First Novel
Set in an imaginary police country in smooth Britain, Andrew Crumey's debut novel explores the complicated friendship among males, Charles King and Robert Waters, a physicist and a historian who proportion a mystery heritage of political and sexual dimensions. An underground journal they'd as soon as co-published brings then below an research that pits one opposed to the opposite. because the novel's narrator unfolds the story, he unearths items of his personal lifestyles. His autobiography is augmented by means of the tale of the 2 neighbors just like the melody and counterpoint of a fugue, till either activities necessarily subscribe to throughout time.
Praise for tune, in a international Language
"Thought-provoking . . . skillfully enmeshes traditional relationships in a subtly built totalitarian world."--Publishers Weekly
"This complicated, hard tale . . . introduces a tender grasp of postmodernist irony who will remind many readers of a number of of the brainier postwar japanese eu novelists . . . an impressive debut."--Kirkus studies
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He belched again. "Food always does this to me," he explained, "when I eat late. I have to be careful about supper if I am entertaining a little friend. " "You'd better go to sleep. " Charlot, leaning against the washstand, watched Carosse with dull distaste--watched not only Carosse--a mirror on the wardrobe door reflected both of their images; two middle-aged ruined men discussing a young girl. Never before had he been so aware of his age. "Do you know," Carosse said, "I'm half regretting that I'm leaving here.
The shallow eyes flickered disapproval: the man only liked his intimates--the payers, Charlot thought--to call him by his name. "You don't remember me, Jules," Charlot said. The man became uneasy: perhaps some tone of voice echoed in his ear. The times were confusing: some customers had disappeared altogether, others who had been in hiding had returned changed by imprisonment, and others who had not been in hiding it was now in the interests of his business to discourage. " The American began to hit loudly on the table with a coin.
Charlot, leaning against the washstand, watched Carosse with dull distaste--watched not only Carosse--a mirror on the wardrobe door reflected both of their images; two middle-aged ruined men discussing a young girl. Never before had he been so aware of his age. "Do you know," Carosse said, "I'm half regretting that I'm leaving here. I believe I could compete with you--even as Jean-Louis Chavel. You haven't any dash, my dear fellow. " "Why ever not? You've nothing against me. " He yawned and stretched.