<strong>Translated Accounts</strong> James Kelmans first novel since the Booker PrizewinningHow late it was how late is a groundbreaking and verbally dazzling v... » 

Translated Accounts James Kelmans first novel since the Booker PrizewinningHow late it was how late is a groundbreaking and verbally dazzling vision ofan unnamed nation under military rule where the state is unchecked andliberties are few or nonexistent.Through fiftyfour accounts by an unknown number of unidentified individualstranslated from an unknown language into sometimes only approximate English aharrowing narrative develops. Here is life in a totalitarian land whereprivacy is nonexistent and existence unstable at best. Filtering the darkvisions of Franz Kafka through the verbal brilliance of Samuel Beckett Kelmanhas written a novel that is often shocking yet surprisingly poignant andtotally unforgettable. «