The ” Apartment”, the astonishing first novel by Greg Baxter, is tale of war & peace, friendship & aloneness. A man walks across an old European capital. Heavy snow falls. He has come here from far away, hoping to forget. Instead, he remembers: home, war, lost friends. Complicity. In the company of a new friend & alive to the new experiences of the city, he moves through the snow & his complicated history in search of an apartment. The ” Apartment”, by the author of the acclaimed memoir ”A Preparation for Death”, is a novel about war, the relationship between America & the rest of the world, & the brittle foundations of Western culture; but above all it is a book about the mysteries & alchemies of friendship
- truthful, moving & brilliant. Acclaimed by Hisham Matar, Adam Thorpe & Roddy Doyle, among others, ” The Apartment” is a deeply original & profoundly involving novel. ” Admirable for its scope, ambition & unashamed seriousness of purpose, as well as its willingness to take stylistic & structural risks”. (Julie Myerson, ” Observer”). ” Stunningly good”. (Susan Jeffreys, ” Saturday Review”).BBC Radio Four ” Baxter`s superbly elegant, understated writing explores the dynamics of America`s relationship with the rest of the world”. (” The Times”). ”A wonderful, horrible, wise novel”. ” Dazed & Confused”. (Book of the Month). ”A dark & sinewy novel, written with sparse clarity & affecting subtlety”. (Stuart Evers, ” Observer” (Books of the Year)). Greg Baxter was born in Texas in 1974. He lived for a number of years in Dublin, & now lives in Berlin. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir ”A Preparation for Death”. ” The Apartment” is his first novel.