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Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. But these are uncharitable times and one must be careful where one probes...When an unexpected house call leads Doctor Beer to Speckstein's apartment, he finds himself in the bedroom of Zuzka, the professor's niece. Wide-eyed, flirtatious, and not detectably ill, Zuzka leads the young doctor to her window and opens up a view of their apartment block that Beer has never known. Across the shared courtyard there is nine-year-old Anneliese, the lonely daughter of an alcoholic. Five windows to the left lives a secretive mime who comes home late at night and keeps something - or someone - precious hidden from view. From the garret drifts the mournful sound of an Oriental's trumpet, and a basement door swings closed behind the building's inscrutable janitor. Does one of these enigmatic neighbours have blood on their hands? Doctor Beer, who has his own reasons for keeping his private life hidden from pu
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Dan Vyleta is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to Germany in the late 1960s. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. His first novel, Pavel & I, was published to international acclaim. Dan Vyleta lives in Wisconsin.
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`The Quiet Twin reveals Vyleta to be a magical storyteller, a master of the macabre and a writer who illuminates the noir with a new darkness ... Vyleta creates a vivid Viennese waltz that explores the darkness of his chosen period in a way that both thrills and disturbs' * David Park * `Heavy with atmosphere and moral menace, full of shadow and suspicion' * Georgina Harding * `Vyleta builds an atmosphere of fear and paranoia ... With The Quiet Twin, he proves he's no one-book wonder' * Globe and Mail * `Pungently recreates the noxious ethos in which it flourished, resembling Hitchcock's Rear Window rescripted by Dostoevsky and Kafka' * Sunday Times *
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- PublisherBloomsbury UK
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1408807424
- ISBN 13 9781408807422
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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