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24 Hours with Gaspar, Hardback Book

24 Hours with Gaspar Hardback

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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.  

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