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"""The haunting novel Schopenhauer's Telescope ...[is] one of the most unusual novels of the year...The effect is pulse-quickening and horrific, as though we've been force marched through a theme park of grotesque monsters.""- Newsday . 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. Beautifully written, with a poet's eye for detail coupled with a chilling and compelling narrative drive, Schopenhauer's Telescope is current in the best sense--no thin allegory of today's conflicts, but a remarkable attempt to make art out of the brutality of life."

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"""Brilliant; an extraordinary duologue, by turns stimulating and comically surreal.... The book as a whole has a sweep, a boldness, an offbeat compulsiveness, that would be exceptional in any novelist, let alone a debutant."" Sunday Telegraph"""

Brilliant; an extraordinary duologue, by turns stimulating and comically surreal.... The book as a whole has a sweep, a boldness, an offbeat compulsiveness, that would be exceptional in any novelist, let alone a debutant. Sunday Telegraph

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Gerard Donovan was born in Ireland and spent time in Germany before moving to New York. His collection of poems, The Lighthouse, was a nominee for the Irish Times Literature Prize and his short stories have won numerous awards. A graduate of The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and the University of Arkansas Writing program, he is currently engaged in research at Trinity College, Dublin, and teaches English at Southampton College of Long Island University.

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