The Gabriel Club (Import)

by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Book Overview

Set in 1970s Budapest, this novel tells the story of a group of artists who form an underground collective dedicated to opposing the repressive Communist regime. The club disbands when the founder... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862071659
• ISBN13: 9781862071650
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.2" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

cerebral, ambiguous

I liked it. It's about four Eastern European dissidents after the fall of Communism, and how they cope with the new conditions. There's a mystery element, since one of their number has disappeared, some time-shifting and ambiguity, allusions to Kafka, and lots of wordplay and imagery. In paticular, there's the symbol of the black seagulls that keep dying (some deliberately) all the way through the story. The woman Immanuelle is a great character, I wished more of the book was devoted to her.

cerebral, ambiguous

I liked it, but I'm not sure if everyone would. It's like amurder mystery...[T]here's some wonderful, almost poetic use oflanguage and images, and some of the most surreal conversations I'verun across in novels.