*"The best book I read last year is A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar... It is so cleverly constructed and such a spectacular conclusion unfolds that you are going to take it all very seriously." - Sting
"Ambitious as hell" -Ian Rankin
"An excellent novel" -Philip Kerr*
Since its original 2014 publication, A Man Lies Dreaming has been translated into multiple languages and gained a cult following for its dark humor, prescient politics and powerful exploration of the impossibility of fantasy.
1939: Adolf Hitler, fallen from power, seeks refuge in a London engulfed in the throes of a very British Fascism. Now eking a miserable living as a down-at-heels private eye and calling himself Wolf, he has no choice but to take on the case of a glamorous Jewish heiress whose sister went missing.
It's a decision Wolf will very shortly regret.
For in another time and place a man lies dreaming: Shomer, once a Yiddish pulp writer, who dreams lurid tales of revenge in the hell that is Auschwitz.
Prescient, darkly funny and wholly original, the award-winning A Man Lies Dreaming is a modern fable for our time that comes "crashing through the door of literature like Sam Spade with a .38 in his hand" (Guardian).
PRAISE FOR LAVIE TIDHAR
"Tidhar is a genius at conjuring realities that are just two steps to the left of our own." -NPR
"Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells." -Library Journal
"In a genre entirely of his own, and quite possibly a warped genius." -Ian McDonald, author of River of Gods
"Already staked a claim as the genre's most interesting, most bold, and most accomplished writer." -Locus
"Tidhar is a master at taking concepts that really shouldn't work and crafting them into something uniquely brilliant." -GeekDad
"He is perhaps the UK's most literary speculative fiction writer." -Strange Horizons
"Like early Kurt Vonnegut... both writers seem to channel the same prankster glee that covers deep despair." -Locus
"Bears comparison with the best of Philip K Dick" -The Financial Times
