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A Man Lies Dreaming
A Man Lies Dreaming | Lavie Tidhar
7 posts | 11 read | 13 to read
The novel that stunned—and scandalized—Europe comes to AmericaWolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London’s gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been—and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining another world. And when Wolf and Shomer's stories converge, we find ourselves drawn into a novel both shocking and profoundly haunting.At once a perfectly pitched hard-boiled noir thriller (with an utterly shocking twist) and a “Holocaust novel like no other” (The Guardian), A Man Lies Dreaming is a masterful, unforgettable literary experiment from “one of our best and most adventurous writers” (Locus).From the Hardcover edition.
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TieDyeDude
A Man Lies Dreaming | Lavie Tidhar
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This is a complex novel that will certainly require some deeper thinking on. An alternative history noir, Hitler's rose to power is thwarted, and he is living in 1930s London as a private eye, going by Wolf. The literary equivalent of a Tarantino movie, full of violence, sex, and racial slurs, this book is not for the faint of heart. The pulpy revisions scenes are interspersed with chapters of an author in a Concentration camp. It's a wild one.

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DoonTheGoon
A Man Lies Dreaming | Lavie Tidhar
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All of these (plus 3 that are for a swap) for $50. Gotta love the used book store. ♡

I really need to impose a book-buying ban buuuuttt... I wouldn't follow it anyway. >_

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Suzze
A Man Lies Dreaming | Lavie Tidhar
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Book Mail! My blind date with a book from Melville House. Sounds intriguing!

vivastory I've had my eye on this one 7y
meggofrank Ooh, I've been wanting to read that one. 7y
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peggyriley
A Man Lies Dreaming | Lavie Tidhar
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Another TBR stack. What should I read? Want to make room for new books in a new year!

Magslhalliday Which Helen Dunmore is it? 7y
peggyriley Sorry, didn't see this. The Siege and Zennor in Darkness. Do you like her? I've only read Exposure. 7y
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MsCiffaJones
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Libro distopico ambientato nell'anno 1939 a Londra. Parla della vita ai margini di Herr Wolf, professione detective privato che altri non è che Adolf Hitler che dopo aver tentato invano di prendere il potere in Germania e non esserci riuscito, si ricicla come povero immigrato a Londra e cade vittima di un imbroglio internazionale ordito dai suoi ex camerati.
Scritto bene e scorrevole, lo consiglio.

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OliverDepp
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This is a disturbing alternative history/ detective story in the best way. Massive thumbs up for the eerily familiar world and a perfectly balanced plot. Couldn't put it down- slayed me. For fans of Walton's Small Change series with strong stomachs.

dylanisreading I want to go to there. 8y
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Genrebending
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Visceral, disturbing, very much R-rated, but so brilliant and powerful.