The Gabriel Club (Import)
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Book Overview
Set in 1970s Budapest, this novel tells the story of a group of artists who form an underground collective dedicated to opposing the repressive Communist regime. The club disbands when the founder... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1862071659
ISBN13:9781862071650
Release Date:January 1998
Publisher:Granta Books
Length:396 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:8.5" x 1.2" x 5.5"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
cerebral, ambiguous
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I liked it. It's about four Eastern European dissidents after the fall of Communism, and how they cope with the new conditions. There's a mystery element, since one of their number has disappeared, some time-shifting and ambiguity, allusions to Kafka, and lots of wordplay and imagery. In paticular, there's the symbol of the black seagulls that keep dying (some deliberately) all the way through the story. The woman Immanuelle is a great character, I wished more of the book was devoted to her.
cerebral, ambiguous
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I liked it, but I'm not sure if everyone would. It's like amurder mystery...[T]here's some wonderful, almost poetic use oflanguage and images, and some of the most surreal conversations I'verun across in novels.
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