An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap?
In The Land Across, Gene Wolfe keeps us guessing until the very end, and after.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013
- ISBN10 0765335956
- ISBN13 9780765335951
- Publish Date 26 November 2013
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 September 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English