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“Equal parts George Saunders, Raymond Chandler and Ludwig Wittgenstein... an intelligent and beguiling book that shouldn't be missed.” —Time Out New YorkSet in the once-great Midwestern city of Trude—a treacherous maze of convoluted shopping malls, barricaded libraries, and elitist assisted-living homes—this novel follows a disconsolate legal clerk named Sven Norberg, who sets out to investigate his wife's disappearance. Written with boundless intelligence and razor-sharp wit, The Facades is a comic and existential mystery that unfolds at the urgent pace of a thriller. “An un-put-downable mystery... brimming with entertaining dialogue and unique, well-wrought characters... Lundgren's debut is a fierce, funny examination of loss, set against one of the most creative worlds in recent memory, and it's not to be missed.” —Publishers Weekly “Lundgren incorporates thoughtful details, unexpected word choices, and striking turns of phrase that linger with the reader long after the book has ended. He has a keen sense of the mental abstraction that accompanies loss and translates it to the page with devastating accuracy. Readers with discerning taste in fiction, especially fans of literary f

Author

Eric Lundgren

Publisher

Harry N. Abrams; The Overlook Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781468308358

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.12 / 5 (448 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14