Forced into a brutal concentration camp during a great war, Brodeck
returns to his village at the war's end and takes up his old job of
writing reports for a governmental bureau. One day a stranger comes
to live in the village. His odd manner and habits arouse
suspicions: His speech is formal, he takes long, solitary walks,
and although he is unfailingly friendly and polite, he reveals
nothing about himself. When the stranger produces drawings of the
village and its inhabitants that are both unflattering and
insightful, the villagers murder him. The authorities who witnessed
the killing tell Brodeck to write a report that is essentially a
whitewash of the incident.
As Brodeck writes the official account, he sets down his version of
the truth in a separate, parallel narrative. In measured, evocative
prose, he weaves into the story of the stranger his own painful
history and the dark secrets the villagers have vigilantly keep
hidden.
Set in an unnamed time and place, "Brodeck" blends the familiar and
unfamiliar, myth and history into a work of extraordinary power and
resonance. Readers of J. M. Coetzee's "Disgrace," Bernhard
Schlink's "The Reade, r" and Kafka will be captivated by "Brodeck."
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