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Schopenhauer's Telescope

Gerard Donovan

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#6699 of 8,085 books · #2185 in Crime & Thriller

Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2003).

In an unnamed European village, in the middle of a civil war, one man digs while another watches over him. Slowly, they begin to talk. Over the course of the afternoon, as the snow falls and truckloads of villagers are corralled in the next field, we discover why they are there - not just who they are but also how sinister events in the country have led them to be separated by a deepening grave, and why the history of civilization is inseparable from the history of mass violence.

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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-13
9780743239202
Topics
War and violencePower and dehumanizationHistory and civilization

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