Miniapolis : roman

An interesting, offbeat novel about five isolated characters who find an unexpected connection when their lives veer off into absurd quests with shades of Kafka and Gormenghast. Amongst other things, we can enjoy the sight of two middle-aged municipal officials on a tandem, and a giant in a

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fetching leather helmet who keeps a light aircraft in the barn of her tumbledown chateau. Van Essen manages to give his lonely misfits a surprising amount of dignity and sympathy whilst making them do silly things, and his fantasy-city is very solidly rooted in the real world.

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