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The Dog King, winner of Europe's prestigious Aristeion Prize, is a work of fierce enchantment -- beautiful, terrifying, and sulphurously comic. The setting is a town called Moor, where during the war thousands of prisoners were brutally killed in a nearby stone quarry. Now the war is over, and the victors have reduced Moor to a Dark Age penal colony, whose inhabitants must endlessly relive their guilt. Among those inhabitants are three outcasts who form a peculiar alliance. The boy, Bering, repairs the town's few precious machines. The girl, Lily, scavenges for the goods that link Moor to the larger world. And Ambras, the Dog King, is Moor's highest authority, ruling by virtue of his suffering in the work-camps, protected by a bodyguard of half-wild hounds. Dazzling and disquieting, this German novel is an audacious feat of speculative fiction that recalls both The Tin Drum and Rusell Hoban's Riddley Walker.

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Title:	Dog King

Professional Reviews

"[Ransmayr] is a marvelous writer." "[A] fascinating and provocative fiction." "[Ransmayr's] vision is his own, customised--like his hero's car--out of kind of bits and pieces that make up so many postmodern fictions, but done here with a seriousness and passion that rare." 'A gem....A work of art, beautiful and full of horror, with scenes of perfect stillness." "Masterly....Ransmayr has described the worst nightmare with the highest artistic skill...Brilliant: the cunning construction of the narrative provides suspense to the last page." "Brilliantly clever."

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An historical novel that envisions the fate of postwar Germany had the Morgenthau Plan, which called for the "deindustrialization" of conquered nations, been implemented. Denuded of railways, factories, money, and schools, Germany reverts to a barter economy of subsistence farming reminiscent of the Dark Ages. In the ruined town of Moor, a young blacksmith named Bering is asked to repair the only automobile left in the region and becomes a friend of its wealthy owner, Ambras, who runs the granite quarry nearby. Eventually, when the quarry is exhausted, Ambras leaves Germany for Brazil and takes Bering with him.

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