Conspirators

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FICTION
G ALICIA, AUSTRIA-HUNGAKV, 1913. In thc castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the empire and his province. When a member of his own family is murdered, the count gives broad police powers to his spymaster, Jakob Tausk — a brilliant young Jew whose ruthless war on terror extends into every corner of the province and beyond, enlisting union organizers, financiers, aristocrats and their servants. Also competing for influence is a messianic rabbi, a wealthy businessman, a young novelist, and a young revolutionary'. Bernstein's crumbling empire possesses the suggestiVeness of a fable and the erotic, mystical, and apocalyptic passions of an age eerily similar to our own.

"Bernstein creates" vivid cast of characters and does a superb job of evoking the feverish intellectLial atnl-sphere of Middle Europe A pleasure to read."
—Jamie James, TAe Wu/... Tovább

Fülszöveg

FICTION
G ALICIA, AUSTRIA-HUNGAKV, 1913. In thc castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the empire and his province. When a member of his own family is murdered, the count gives broad police powers to his spymaster, Jakob Tausk — a brilliant young Jew whose ruthless war on terror extends into every corner of the province and beyond, enlisting union organizers, financiers, aristocrats and their servants. Also competing for influence is a messianic rabbi, a wealthy businessman, a young novelist, and a young revolutionary'. Bernstein's crumbling empire possesses the suggestiVeness of a fable and the erotic, mystical, and apocalyptic passions of an age eerily similar to our own.

"Bernstein creates" vivid cast of characters and does a superb job of evoking the feverish intellectLial atnl-sphere of Middle Europe A pleasure to read."
—Jamie James, TAe Wu/ Street Journal
"Bernstein gets it all right. Conspirators, emotionally compelling and intellectually exhilarating, splendidly re-çreates a forgotten world." —Dan CryeR, Newsday
"Precision, imagination, and acute psychological insights are the hallmarks of Conspirators, an extraordinarily satisfying historical novel An unusually assured and captivating debut."
—Carlo Wolff, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Michael André Bernstein isafrequent
contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The New Republic. He is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley.
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