Paperback. A gravel path stops at the doorstep of an extraordinary house. A solicitor who has been engaged to handle the estate comes across a protocol containing passionate letters to a dear friend. Stuck in between the letters he also finds remnants of a catalogue listing nigh on eight million items - relics and collectors' objects from the history of modern art. Each item has been auctioned. The solicitor reads what soon becomes an incredible story. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Black Signs (Paperback)
Publisher: Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3943196291
ISBN 13: 9783943196290
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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he Black Signs, the first novel from Norwegian art historian and curator Lars M�rch Finborud is a well-crafted and inventive story with a dark subject. A lawyer charged with inventorying an estate whose owner has disappeared discovers the abandoned house is crammed with piles of black signs, memorial plaques dedicated to inconsequential, horrible or forgotten events documentation of a hidden reality an unprecedented project on a huge scale. He comes across passionate letters addressed to a mysterious friend and tucked among the piles he discovers remnants of a catalog listing millions of relics and collectors objects from the history of modern art, all of which at one time had been auctioned. What follows soon adds up to an incredible and at times ambiguously dazzling tale that is at once unique and yet truly of our time.

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