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  • ENGLISH

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  • 288

    Pages
  • 9780143116516

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  • 1 mm

    Width
  • 14 mm

    Height
  • 227 gram

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  • REPRINT

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 26 JANUARY 2010

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    This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka. - - The New Yorker Reminiscent of imaginative fiction from Jorge Luis Borges to Jasper Fforde yet dazzlingly original, The Manual of Detection marks the debut of a prodigious young talent. Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at a huge, imperious detective agency locate This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka. - - The New Yorker Reminiscent of imaginative fiction from Jorge Luis Borges to Jasper Fforde yet dazzlingly...  Read More

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    Jedediah Berry

    Jedediah Berry was raised in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. His first novel, The Manual of Detection, received the Crawford Fantasy Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize, and his short stories have appeared in anthologies including Best New American Voices and Best American Fantasy. He lives in Western Massachusetts.

    "Jedediah Berry knows magic. The Manual of Detection combines the intricacy and thoughtfulness of Borges and Kafka with the page-turning excitement of a detective thriller.... It made me laugh, thrill, think, and wonder."—Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief

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