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"An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined.
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Contemporary, grave, open-ended and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Gene Wolfe
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- PS Publishing, Brilliance Audio, Tor Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780765335951
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Gene Wolfe was born in Texas. After dropping out from Texas A&M University, he served in the Korean War, and later graduated from the University of Houston. He worked first as an engineer, notably designing part of the machine that produces Pringles potatoe chips, and later as the editor of a professional engineering magazine, *Plant Engineering*. Wolfe was a prolific writer, publishing over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories in his life. He was known for the complexity of his narratives and the depth of his characters, frequently using unreliable or fallible narrators to enhance his thematic focus on memory. His work explores topics of morality, often through the lens of his Catholic f
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