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<p><p>haffner Is Charming, Morally Suspect, Vain, Obsessed By The Libertine Emperors. He Is British And Jewish And A Widower. But Haffner’s Attachments To His Nation, His Race, His Marriage, Have Always Been Matters Of Conjecture. They Have Always Been Subjects Of Debate.<p>there Are Many Stories Of Haffner—but This, The Most Secret, Is The Greatest Of Them All. <i>the Escape </i>opens In A Spa Town Snug In The Unfashionable Eastern Alps, Where Haffner Has Come To Claim His Wife’s Inheritance: A Villa Expropriated In Darker Times. After Weeks Of Ignoring His Task In Order To Conduct Two Affairs—one With A Capricious Young Yoga Instructor, The Other With A Hungrily Passionate Married Woman—he Discovers Gradually That He Wants This Villa, Very Much. Squabbling With Bureaucrats And Their Shadows Means A Fight, And Haffner Wants Anything He Has To Fight For.<p>how Can You Ever Escape Your Past, Your Family, Your History? That Is The Problem Of Haffner’s Story In <i>the Escape</i>. That Has Always Been The Problem Of Haffner—and His Lifetime Of Metamorphoses And Disappearances. How Might Haffner Ever Become Unattached?<p>through The Improvis
- Author
- Thirlwell, Adam, 1978-
- Publisher
- New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429932356
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities