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Giller Prize–shortlisted and globally acclaimed author Dan Vyleta is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to Germany in the late 1960s. Though he now calls Canada his home, he lives and teaches in the UK. His debut novel, Pavel & I, was published in thirteen countries and translated into eight languages. His second novel, The Quiet Twin, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent novel, The Crooked Maid, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a Globe and Mail Book of the Year. Visit him online at danvyleta.com and on Twitter @danvyleta.
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Novels about post-WWII Europe offer fascinating possibilities. Political lines are being redrawn, societies are rebuilding from the rubble, and chickens are coming home to roost. The Crooked Maid focuses on a group of characters converging on Vienna after a long absence. Anton Beer is headed home after years in a Russian POW camp. His estranged wife, Anna, is coming from Paris to meet him. The young man Robert, who shares Anna’s train, is coming home after his stepfather has fallen—or been pushed—from a high window. These and many other characters are drawn together at the trial of Robert’s stepbrother, accused of pushing his father, and by the search for Anton, who has gone missing. The novel has some trappings of a murder mystery but is more of a psychological novel, as the characters—from the eponymous crippled maid to the war-enriched matriarch—try to ferret out the truth from others while guarding their own secrets. This novel conjures up the stifling atmosphere of shame and deception of the postwar period and hints at escape through Vienna’s own “talking cure”—openness and honesty. --Lynn Weber
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 140885404X
- ISBN 13 9781408854044
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages448
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