The Exile

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  • In
  • this
  • “psychological
  • mind
  • bender,”
  • a
  • Kafkaesque
  • crisis
  • of
  • identity
  • transports
  • a
  • famous
  • actor
  • from
  • 1980s
  • Hollywood
  • to
  • Nazi
  • Germany
  • (The
  • Washington
  • Post).At
  • forty-five,
  • Hollywood
  • film
  • star
  • David
  • Caspian
  • should
  • be
  • basking
  • in
  • his
  • success.
  • Instead,
  • his
  • career
  • is
  • souring
  • as
  • he
  • stresses
  • over
  • the
  • next
  • generation
  • of
  • actors
  • eager
  • to
  • replace
  • him.
  • Losing
  • himself
  • in
  • waking
  • fantasies,
  • David
  • slips
  • through
  • a
  • crack
  • in
  • time,
  • awakening
  • in
  • the
  • back
  • alleys
  • of
  • Hitler’s
  • Berlin.
  • He
  • is
  • no
  • longer
  • David
  • Caspian.
  • He
  • has
  • become
  • Felix,
  • a
  • ruthless
  • black
  • marketeer.With
  • the
  • Gestapo
  • closing
  • in
  • on
  • him,
  • David
  • races
  • against
  • time—and
  • space—as
  • he
  • fights
  • to
  • take
  • control
  • of
  • Felix
  • before
  • Felix
  • takes
  • control
  • of
  • him.
  • Witty,
  • macabre,
  • and
  • utterly
  • thrilling,
  • The
  • Exile
  • is
  • a
  • mesmerizing
  • novel
  • that
  • will
  • leave
  • readers
  • wondering
  • where
  • reality
  • ends
  • and
  • fiction
  • begins.People
  • wrote
  • that
  • when
  • William
  • Kotzwinkle
  • “is
  • the
  • author,
  • readers
  • can
  • be
  • sure
  • only
  • that
  • the
  • book
  • in
  • question
  • will
  • be
  • different
  • from
  • everything
  • else.”
  • But
  • even
  • among
  • the
  • award-winning
  • author’s
  • work,
  • this
  • bracing
  • satire
  • stands
  • out
  • for
  • the
  • sweep
  • of
  • its
  • vision,
  • full
  • of
  • “comedy,
  • despair,
  • horror
  • and
  • technical
  • storytelling
  • delight”
  • (The
  • New
  • York
  • Times
  • Book
  • Review).“The
  • book
  • becomes
  • glued
  • to
  • the
  • reader’s
  • hands
  • as
  • the
  • devastating
  • climactic
  • scenes
  • pile
  • one
  • on
  • another.
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • Powerful
  • writing.”
  • —The
  • Washington
  • Post
  • Book World
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