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In a quiet seaside town near Genoa, experts are gathering for a linguistics conference. One speaker, Philipp Perlmann is recently widowed and, struggling to contend with his grief, is unable to complete his keynote address. Desperate, Perlmann decides to plagiarize the work of a Russian colleague who cannot attend, and pass it off as his own. This act leads Perlmann into a maelstrom of lies and deceit, which will lead him to the brink of murde...

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A finely calibrated, heart-breaking novel from the author of the huge bestseller, Night Train to Lisbon. After the death of his wife, Martijn van Vliet's daughter LEA cuts herself off from the world, until an encounter with Bach's music turns into an all-consuming passion for the violin. As her fame blossoms, her relationship with her father withers, driving him to destruction.

A new paperback from the internationally bestselling author of Night Train to Lisbon

Pascal Mercier was born in 1944 in Bern, Switzerland, and currently lives in Berlin, where he is a professor of philosophy.

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What might have been, in less talented hands, an amusing literary thriller is, in Mercier's prose . . . something far more complex." --Alberto Manguel, "The Guardian" (UK) "Night Train to Lisbon, " a tremendous international best seller, established Pascal Mercier as one of the most striking European voices in recent years, a writer whose finely wrought language and suspenseful narratives captivate readers' hearts and minds while equally quic...

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