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Man Without Illness
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781960385628
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Published: Feb 24 2027
Pages: 200
Language: English
A taut, disquieting novel from one of today's most fearless and acclaimed Dutch writers.
In Man Without Illness, Arnon Grunberg strips down the idea of Western idealism and cultural neutrality through the story of Samarendra Ambani--Sam--a promising Swiss architect who fervently believes that buildings can make life better. Healthy in body, precise in thought, and untouched by suffering, Sam is the man without illness. But when he travels to Baghdad to design an opera house, his sense of order collapses.
Wrongly accused, tortured, humiliated, and expelled from Iraq, Sam returns to Zurich broken but unchanged--or so he believes. He accepts a second commission in Dubai, this time to build a national library, determined to prove that architecture--and rationality--can still hold meaning. But suspicion follows him, and again, the ground beneath him gives way.
A portrait of modern alienation, Man Without Illness is both a psychological drama and a political fable--brilliantly unsettling, mordantly funny, and utterly contemporary.
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