24 Hours with Gaspar Hardback
by Sabda Armandio, Lara Norgaard
Hardback
Description
A breathtakingly imaginative futuristic crime thriller. Decades into the future, Indonesia’s crowded capital city is underwater.
A mysterious novelist searches what remains of the metropolis for the story of an old, infamous crime.
He combs the streets for traces of Gaspar: private-eye-cum-criminal-mastermind who plotted a seemingly simple robbery of a jewelry store.
Far from just unlocking riches, however, the heist unearths a series of interlinking conflicts that have haunted Gaspar since childhood. In this brilliant twist of genres, this book combines noir with a laugh-out-loud detective and touches of surreal science fiction.
The book’s eclectic blend of allusions and narrative strategies opens new horizons for literary crime fiction while also painting a fresh, postmodern portrait of Jakarta.
In a city webbed by roadways and canals, personal vendettas trace back to political crimes and social ills.
First impressions can’t be trusted, meta-literary motorbikes possess free will, and a senile witness might be a police detective’s best bet at finding the true whodunnit—if we are to believe that a single truth exists at all.
It is a chess game in which your knight no longer moves in the shape of an L, and Gaspar intends to win.
Information
-
Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:06/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781803092041
£19.99
£17.99
Information
-
Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:06/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781803092041