Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars-Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.
- ISBN13 9781913097622
- Publish Date 23 June 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 June 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Format Paperback
- Pages 104
- Language English