The Land Across
by Gene Wolfe
A novel of the fantastic set in an imagined country in Europe
An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to
travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The
moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he
could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he
is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a
family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are
supernatural agencies at work, but they are not in some ways as
threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that
country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent
citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap?
Gene Wolfe keeps us guessing until the very end, and after.
Gene Wolfe keeps us guessing until the very end, and after.
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Category: Fantasy
Release date: November 18, 2013
Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe (1931-2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short-story writer and novelist and won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards.
Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–83), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.
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