A Brutal Design

A Novel

Zachary C. Solomon

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English

Miscellaneous
30 January 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science Fiction

""A superbly bizarreGtterdmmerung.""-Wall Street Journal

""An uncompromising portrait of the human psyche.""-Soon Wiley, author of When We Fell Apart

After the fascist takeover of his homeland and the murder of his parents, Jewish architecture student Samuel Zelnik thinks that he and his friends are bound for the gulag-or worse. Instead, he receives an unexpected offer of freedom working in the experimental utopian city of Duma.

Awed by the city's dramatic architecture but confused by the other residents' strange behavior, Zelnik searches for his long-lost uncle who emigrated to Duma before him. His wanderings reunite him with Miriana Grannoff, an exiled avant-garde artist who was once his teacher. Her memorial installations hidden around the city equally enchant and repel him. And gradually, they begin to reveal a truth: Duma is not the workers' paradise it pretends to be.

By: Zachary C. Solomon
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 277g
ISBN: 9781941360811
ISBN 10: 1941360815
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 30 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Zachary C. Solomon is from Miami, Florida. He received an MFA from Brooklyn College, where he was a Truman Capote fellow. He lives with his wife, the novelist Mandy Berman, and their daughter in New York's Hudson Valley.

Reviews for A Brutal Design: A Novel

"""A superbly bizarre Götterdämmerung.”—Wall Street Journal “An uncompromising portrait of the human psyche.”—Soon Wiley, author of When We Fell Apart “Keenly political, rich with implications for both the past and the future.”—Helen Phillips, author of The Need"