{"product_id":"a-man-lies-dreaming-isbn-9781612195049","title":"A Man Lies Dreaming","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe novel that stunned—and scandalized—Europe comes to America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London’s gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been—and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining another world. And when Wolf and Shomer's stories converge, we find ourselves drawn into a novel both shocking and profoundly haunting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a perfectly pitched hard-boiled noir thriller (with an utterly shocking twist) and a “Holocaust novel like no other” (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eA Man Lies Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful, unforgettable literary experiment from “one of our best and most adventurous writers” (\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cb\u003e• Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize\u003cbr\u003e• Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award\u003cbr\u003e• A Guardian Best Science Fiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e• A Scotland Herald Best Crime Novel of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stunning...very funny...remarkably poignant...[Tidhar]  reminds us that even — especially — under the most terrible of  circumstances, stories are all we have. And in the right hands, they can  be a formidable weapon.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bold and unnerving…\u003ci\u003eA Man Lies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDreaming \u003c\/i\u003eis a book of  big ideas, from the pathological origins of racist ideology to the way  humanizing and dehumanizing those we love or loathe are flip sides of  the same coin.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s caustic. It’s risky. The unexpected thing about the book is this: It’s \u003ci\u003egood.\u003c\/i\u003e It’s damn good.”\u003cb\u003e—Jewish Book Council\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003e[\u003ci\u003eA Man Lies Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e] blends two venerable genres — alternative history and noir mystery, with  Hitler playing the gumshoe. Though this seems like a stretch, Tidhar  makes it work. In keeping with the conventions of the genre, his writing  is clipped and precise, but colorful enough to reinvigorate familiar  tropes.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Forward\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A  daring work, briskly paced and impossible to set down.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eALIVE Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Quite literally took my breath away.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleaver Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everything in this genre-bender works; intriguing historical  characters are worked into expertly managed plots, and the visceral noir  atmosphere is juxtaposed nicely against the drawing-room world of  London’s political scene.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wholly original Holocaust story: as outlandish as it is poignant.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliant . . . Shocking . . . A twisted masterpiece . . . A Holocaust novel like no other, Lavie Tidhar’s \u003ci\u003eA Man Lies Dreaming \u003c\/i\u003ecomes crashing through the door of literature like Sam Spade with a .38 in his hand.\u003cb\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Theodor Adorno said that to write poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric. To which I would say, yes, but you can still write an excellent novel. A Man Lies Dreaming is that novel.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Philip Kerr\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Readers may quickly get used to being ashamed of their laughter, but they may find it more unsettling to discover that their compassion feels equally transgressive . . . Weird, upsetting, unmissable.”\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Telegraph (★★★★★)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A sort of Holocaust noir or pulp that is at once as riveting as it is disturbing . . . There is eloquence and gravitas in the sparseness and brevity of noir fiction when it is good, and Tidhar's is quite incredible.”\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tor.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLAVIE TIDHAR \u003c\/b\u003eis the\u003cb\u003e World Fantasy Award\u003c\/b\u003e-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Violent Century, Osama,\u003c\/i\u003e and many other books. He won the \u003cb\u003eBritish Fantasy Award for Best Novella\u003c\/b\u003e and has been nominated for many other prizes. He grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and in South Africa but currently lives in London.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301552509157,"sku":"NP9781612195049","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781612195049.jpg?v=1742924509","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-man-lies-dreaming-isbn-9781612195049","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}