A Man Lies Dreaming
THE CULT NOVEL RETURNS!
“The best book I read last year is A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar… It is so cleverly constructed and such a spectacular conclusion unfolds that you are going to take it all very seriously.” – Sting
“Ambitious as hell” –Ian Rankin
“An excellent novel” –Philip Kerr
Since its original 2014 publication, A Man Lies Dreaming has been translated into multiple languages and gained a cult following for its dark humor, prescient politics and powerful exploration of the impossibility of fantasy.
1939: Adolf Hitler, fallen from power, seeks refuge in a London engulfed in the throes of a very British Fascism. Now eking a miserable living as a down-at-heels private eye and calling himself Wolf, he has no choice but to take on the case of a glamorous Jewish heiress whose sister went missing.
It’s a decision Wolf will very shortly regret.
For in another time and place a man lies dreaming: Shomer, once a Yiddish pulp writer, who dreams lurid tales of revenge in the hell that is Auschwitz.
Prescient, darkly funny and wholly original, the award-winning A Man Lies Dreaming is a modern fable for our time that comes “crashing through the door of literature like Sam Spade with a .38 in his hand” (Guardian).
Reviews
“Complex, elusive and intriguing...”—The Jerusalem Post
“Nasty, clever, waspish and witty… a brilliant and potent thought experiment.”—The Sunday Herald
“Bold and unnerving.”—NPR
“Damn good...”—Jewish Book Council
“A wholly original Holocaust story: as outlandish as it is poignant.”—Kirkus (starred review)
“A vital, brilliant novel”—Barnes & Noble SFF Blog
“Poetic & terrible… quite incredible.”—Tor.com