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Fear of De Sade

By (author) Bernardo Carvalho






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In the pitch-black cell of an asylum - possibly in nineteenth century France - an extended dialogue between the baron and a disembodied voice ensues. Arrested for a crime that he has no memory of, the baron swears his innocence throughout. In contemporary France a man and his wife push one another into increasingly violent and extreme situations in what is evidently a deeply twisted marriage. There is only one possible outcome as the stakes get higher and higher. And where there is murder, there must be a murderer ...A book where nothing is quite as it first seems, Bernardo Carvalho's ingeniously structured novel raises disturbing questions about man's capacity to deceive and damage. This is the second of several novellas featuring deceased literary figures at the heart of a murder mystery: based on a highly acclaimed Brazilian series entitled Death or Literature. New fiction in this occasional series comes from Louise Welsh (on Christopher Marlowe) and Alberto Manguel (Stevenson Under the Palm Trees - January 2004).

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Publisher | Canongate Books Ltd
Published date | 28 Jun 2004
Language |
Format | Paperback
Pages | 144
Dimensions | 198 x 127 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-8419-5496-7
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BISAC | fiction / mystery & detective / general


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