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Of Greek and Austrian descent, Aris Fioretos was born and raised in Sweden. He was educated at Stockholm and Yale Universities. The recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships, he has published several books in his native country, and also rendered the works of Vladimir Nabokov into Swedish. The Truth about Sascha Knisch is his first novel in English. Aris Fioretos lives with his wife and daughter in Berlin, where he is currently the counsellor for culture at the Swedish Embassy.In this noir-ish novel of 1928 Berlin, Aris Fioretos serves up <b>an intoxicating brew distilled of equal parts murder mystery, sexological rumination, and historical farce</b>
- Jeffrey Eugenides,
Fioretos has many similarities to Vladimir Nabokov... His prose style is playful, attentive and deft... By the end of this novel, the truth about Sascha Knisch may remain uncertain, but the formidable qualities of his creator have been well established
Times Literary Supplement
A stylish, intelligent and eerily entertaining novel
Independent on Sunday
This incredible novel about a young man's odyssey through the sexual underground of Weimar Germany is either a comic tragedy or a tragic comedy, and it is Aris Fioretos' great achievement to keep you guessing past the last page. <i>The Truth about Sascha Knisch</i> is worldly, audacious, haunting in its candour and unremittingly disturbing in its prescience. <b>Fioretos is without a doubt one of Europe's most gifted writers</b>
- Jane Kramer,
A masterpiece
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