In a Pig's Ear

By Paul Bryers

Book Overview

Milan, a cynical ex-professor of psychology, escaped from the bleak Czechoslovakia of the 1960's to become a Hollywood psychiatrist to the stars. The Prague he knew fades into memory, and with the end... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374175640
• ISBN13: 9780374175641
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Unique and Memorable

I picked up In A Pig's Ear from a bargain bin at local book chain and have to say that it was one my most memorable reads. The author has a unique narrative style that provides a truly immersive text that is part fantasy, part thriller, part poetry. Definitely worth picking it up.

King Arthur redux

Paul Bryers weaves an engrossing story around the return of a successful Hollywood filmmaker (Adam Epstein) to Berlin - where he had been born in the horrific final days of WWII. It is now the late 1990s and a murky,unsettling and slightly sinister post-reunification Berlin serves as the background to a story of ambiguous parentage and personal redemption. A growing sense of menace (neo-Nazi activity flourishes, Adam is drawn into what appears to be an intricate web of deceit...) and the cooly ironic tone of the (Merlin-like)narrator combine to make this an above average 'literary' novel with thriller overtones.