Underground fugue : a novel

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Label

Underground fugue : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Margot Singer

Creator

• Singer, Margot

Author

• Singer, Margot

Subject

• FICTION -- Political
• FICTION -- Sagas
• Domestic fiction
• Thrillers (Fiction)
• FICTION -- Jewish

Genre

• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Set against the backdrop of the tube bombings in London in 2005, Underground Fugue interweaves the stories of four characters who are dislocated by shock waves of personal loss, political violence, and, ultimately, betrayal. It's April and Esther has left New York for London, partly to escape her buckling marriage, and partly to care for her dying mother; Lonia, Esther's mother, is haunted by memories of fleeing Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II; Javad, their next-door neighbor and an Iranian neuroscientist, struggles to connect with his college-aged son; and Amir, Javad's son, is seeking both identity and escape in his illicit exploration of the city's forbidden spaces. As Esther settles into life in London, a friendship develops among them. But when terrorists attack the London transit system in July, someone goes missing, and the chaos that follows both fractures the possibilities for the future, and reveals the deep fault lines of the past. With nuanced clarity and breathtaking grandeur, Margot Singer's Underground Fugue is an elegant, suspenseful, and deeply powerful debut"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3619.I572447

LC item number

U53 2017

Literary form

novels