Cobblestone

Ranging through a history of changing empires, monarchies, countries, regimes, religions, down to the disappearing shop-fronts and street names, Hungary is always there, through the Millennium celebrations over a century ago, amid the exhausted last days of communism, and even under today's ';illiberal democracy'. ';A vast, sprawling novel linking a meticulously plotted jewel theft in 1896 Budapest to the impulsive crime of passion that sinks the plotters and to the history of modern Hungary, of the anonymous narrator's family, and of life on earth. A heroically scaled assault on narrative and causality. Ulysses-like.' KIRKUS';More science fiction than a detective novel, not the usual cynical detective novel, but the big story of the early twentieth century throughout Europe, with the streets and brothels of Budapest at its center. A fascinating mosaic of the underworld of Budapest, as well as a fantastic heist story.' International Noir Fiction