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The Right Hand of Sleep

The Right Hand of Sleep

A Novel

by John Wray
Paperback
Publication Date: 14/05/2002

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This extraordinary debut novel from Whiting Writers' Award winner John Wray is a poetic portrait of a life redeemed at one of the darkest moments in world history.

Twenty years after deserting the army in the first world war, Oskar Voxlauer returns to the village of his youth. Haunted by his past, he finds an uneasy peace in the mountains-but it is 1938 and Oskar cannot escape from the rising tide of Nazi influence in town. He attempts to retreat to the woods, only to be drawn back by his own conscience and the chilling realization that the woman whose love might finally save him is bound to the local SS commander. Morally complex, brilliantly plotted, and heartbreakingly realized, The Right Hand of Sleep marks the beginning of an important literary career.
ISBN:
9780375706400
9780375706400
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
14-05-2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
203x133x19mm
Weight:
0.36kg
John Wray

John Wray is also the author of Lowboy, Canaan's Tongue, and The Right Hand of Sleep.

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007.

A citizen of both the United States and Austria, he lives in New York City.

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