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So much more bracing and consequential than the bulk of contemporary fiction' Irish Times  'Assured and fluent ... a forensic examination of what it means today to be a man, and to be human' TLS  'Honest, bracing and eloquent ... Munich Airport is a brilliant achievement' Wall Street Journal  'A writer of courage and lucidity. His fluent and assured prose owes some debt to the Austro-Hungarian Franz Kafka and the Austrian Thomas Bernhard. ... 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