In an unnamed European city, sensuous young psychologist Gloria
allows herself to be bought by a powerful but unbalanced gangster.
She must devote herself to treating his neuroses in return for
protection, as a sinister invading force gains power, a wall goes
up to divide the ethnically-mixed population and a reign of
political terror begins. When her protector mysteriously
disappears, who can she trust? Her almost lover who now wears the
uniform of the oppressors? Her erstwhile boss? Based on real events
inside the Warsaw ghetto, Flusfeder's story sheds new light on more
recent European nightmares as well as on the Holocaust itself.
(Kirkus UK)
Set in the colourful, threatened world of occupied Warsaw just
before the Holocaust, this third novel by a highly praised writer
tells the story of Gloria, a young Freudian analyst whose sole
client, a Jewish tycoon, fakes his own suicide and thereby drags
Gloria into a web of intrigue, deception and betrayal. Gloria, the
sexy, clever, appealing narrator of David Flusfeder's brilliant
third novel, is thrown into a series of adventures after the faked
suicide of her sole client, a Jewish tycoon in occupied Warsaw. She
is dragged into a plot to assassinate Igo Sym, one of several
real-life figures appearing in the novel: a Polish movie star who
became 'Volkdeutsch' during the Nazi occupation. Murder, comedy,
paranoia, heartache and depth psychology... these are the threads
running through this vividly readable new novel by the author of
'MAN KILLS WOMAN' and 'LIKE PLASTIC'. In original, sensual prose,
Flusfeder has woven a novel both entertaining and thoughtful,
preoccupied by war, by the idea of 'psychic infection', by sexual
and physical power, by danger and the exotic.
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