Batlava Lake

by Adam Mars-Jones

Book Overview

Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars-Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913097625
• ISBN13: 9781913097622
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"