Vilnius Poker

Autorentext

Ri ardas Gavelis (1950-2002) was a theoretical physicist at Lithuania's Institute of Physics and Mathematics for several years before irrevocably turning to writing. While working for cultural journals, he wrote novels, short story collections, and film scenarios. Gavelis also wrote on economics and politics for newspapers and journals. This is his third novel to be translated into English.

Klappentext

A dark, enigmatic, and visceral examination of the psychology of repression, Vilnius Poker dives into the minds of four narrators whose contradictory memories challenge the very idea of truth. In this masterpiece written "for the drawer," Vilnius itself becomes a presence possessing a will, a consciousness and, worse, an intent. First published in 1989 when Lithuania was on the verge of breaking away from the Soviet Union, this book raised a firestorm for its brutality, frank sex, and its destruction of the myths of Lithuanian history.