By the author of The Way Through Doors.
A young man witnesses an attempted murder and goes to the aid of the victim, who whispers one word in his ear: samedi. Fearing involvement, the man fails to notify the police. Later, as his conscience begins to fester, and with nothing being written about it in the newspapers, he tries to track down the victim and offer help. All his efforts only lead to him to being kidnapped and placed in a private psychiatric sanatorium that specializes in curing individuals diagnosed as being pathological liars.
In this scenario, whom can the reader trust? The narrator, the hospital staff, the other patients, the representatives of the law? And is the terrorist plot that seems to be unfolding real or imagined?
Those questions don’t really matter in this tour-de-force storytelling, with prose written by a poet who understands the beauty and power of language and shares it on every page.
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