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Perpetually shrouded in a thick cloud of cigar smoke, Herman Arbogast Brenner, scion of an old and famous cigar dynasty, has decided to kill himself - but not until he has written down his forty-six years of life, in a Proustian attempt to conjure the wounds, joys, and sensations of his childhood in the rolling countryside of the Aargau region of Switzerland. In this roman a clef, writing and smoking become intertwined through the act of remembering, as Brenner, a fallible, wounded, yet lovable antihero, searches for epiphany,

ISBN-13

9781953861306

ISBN-10

195386130X

Weight

0.81 Pounds

Dimensions

6.15 x 1.08 x 6.95 In

List Price

$22.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

400 pages

Publisher

Archipelago

Published On

2022-07-05



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