The Dance of a Sham Flanders of literary references both real

of literary references both real and invented

masculinity as he negotiates his way over the twin peaks of politics and family" – Lesley McDowell

the novel contains lovely melodrama and nostalgia for those times when radio was the only information medium for Estonian rural people

in a string of declarative sentences

a girl-warrior from Somalia

The Dance of a Sham Flanders of literary references both realThe narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend Caracala's yarns, which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references to Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. At first, the spotlight is entirely on Caracala, but the narrator soon begins to distrust his friend, concluding that he is no more than a sham, a performer. Yet the reader in turn comes to doubt the narrator's own