Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. He imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union, and a bloody civil war ensued. Brill gradually opens up to his granddaughter, recounting the story of his marriage and confronting the grim reality of Titus' death. "Man in the Dark" is a novel of our time, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night whilst also celebrating the existence of ordinary joys in a brutal world.
- ISBN10 9573327597
- ISBN13 9789573327592
- Publish Date 17 January 2011 (first published 19 August 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 February 2021
- Imprint Huang Guan
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language Chinese