Batlava Lake

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ISBN-10: 1913097625
ISBN-13: 9781913097622
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publish Date: 11/16/2021
Dimensions: 7.64" L, 4.96" W, 0.55" H

Batlava Lake

byAdam Mars-Jones

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Price: $15.95

Overview

Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars-Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain’s most accomplished writers.

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'No one inhabits character as intensely and subtly as Mars-Jones. Batlava Lake is therefore completely convincing as an everyman narrative - we know people exactly like Barry Ashton, and may even be exactly like him - but there's a larger truth here too, about clashes of cultures and history, that make this an important and highly recommended book.'
– Lee Child

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Details

ISBN-10: 1913097625
ISBN-13: 9781913097622
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publish Date: 11/16/2021
Dimensions: 7.64" L, 4.96" W, 0.55" H
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