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Kleinzeit

Kleinzeit

RELEASED 25/03/2021

On a day like any other, Kleinzeit gets fired. Hours later he finds himself in hospital with a pair of adventurous pyjamas and a mysterious 'skewed hypotenuse'. Here he falls instantly in love with a beautiful night nurse called Sister. Armed only with a Glockenspiel and a copy of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War, together they are pitched headlong into a series of wild metaphysical adventures.

Kleinzeit. In German that means 'hero'. Or maybe 'smalltime'. It depends who you ask.

Reviews

  • Russell Hoban is one of our greatest, timeless novelists.

    The Times

  • Russell Hoban is our Ur-novelist, a maverick voice that is like no other.

    Sunday Telegraph

  • Masterly ... a mosaic in which each tiny fragment of wit or dirt or profundity has its appointed place.

    Times Literary Supplement

  • A second tour-de-force... entirely delightful.

    Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

  • Brimming with humanity and humour... brilliant handling of language.

    Glasgow Herald

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