The Liar Richard Pevear A middle-aged man returns to

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral

A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book

of individuals who live in slavery

They expect to face many hazards – some strange and other-worldly – but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another

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The Liar Richard Pevear A middle-aged man returns toStephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth. The Liar is a thrilling,