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Illusions (Faber Editions)

Illusions (Faber Editions)

Rehmann, Ruth
Nolan, Megan
Madole, Rob

Paperback

Series: Faber Editions

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 3, 2026

ISBN10: 0571396585
ISBN13: 9780571396580
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: Nov 3 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English

Four office workers, one unforgettable weekend - this shimmering lost German classic unveils the hidden lives inside every employee.

Welcome to the Wellis Corporation. Twenty-three storeys of shimmering glass cubicles, rattling typewriters, spiraling corridors: a corporate kingdom with its own neon light.

Across the glittering panes, the acrobatic window cleaner swoops and dives, or pauses, still as a gargoyle, seeing things that nobody else sees.

Over one weekend, we follow four employees into their private worlds. An ageing secretary; a translator in a mid-life-crisis; a once-glamorous typist; and a lovelorn trainee.

Together, they reveal the illusions we live by - in the workplace, in the home and in our own mind's eye.

Lost for decades since it was first published in Germany in 1959, introduced by Megan Nolan and in a hypnotic new translation by Rob Madole, this crystalline debut novel by a pioneering female writer rewrites German literary history.

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