{"product_id":"glasshouse-9780993195570","title":"GlassHouse","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiction. Set in and around Jardin des Plantes, Paris, Europe, the World, the Universe, Armand's short novel is a whodunit with multiple twists. The setting of the tale against a backdrop of fossils and marvels of taxidermy gives Armand's story a macroscopic dimension. As if the evolution of an entire species could be compressed into several hours of a Sunday morning. As if a tale of a murdered schoolteacher and a vengeful mob could tell of speciation and extinction throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth. And it can. Armand's deftly written fragmentary narrative is a point-counter-point of silent unheard voices, whose apocalyptic finale eschews euphony in favour of a cacophonous refusal of resolution. \"NO END\"--loose ends being preferable to final solutions... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArmand, Louis:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Louis Armand is a writer and visual artist who has lived in Prague since 1994. He has worked as an editor and publisher, and as a subtitles technician at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and is an editor of \u003cem\u003eVLAK\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. He is the author of eight novels, including \u003cem\u003eBreakfast at Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e in 2012, a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka's Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despair and edgy, dry existentialist hardboil (Richard Marshall, \u003cem\u003e3: AM\u003c\/em\u003e), CAIRO (Equus Press, 2014; short listed for the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e's Not-the-Booker Prize), THE COMBINATIONS (Equus Press, 2016), and GLASSHOUSE (Equus Press, 2018). Described as Robert Pinget does Canetti (in drag in Yugoslavia), Armand's third novel \u003cem\u003eClair Obscur\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Equus in 2011. His previous novel, \u003cem\u003eMenudo\u003c\/em\u003e (Antigen), was hailed as unrelenting, a flying wedge, an encyclopaedia of the wasteland, an uzi assault pumping desolation lead... inspiring! (Thor Garcia, author of \u003cem\u003eThe News Clown\u003c\/em\u003e). He's also the author of VIDEOLOGY 1 and 2 (Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2015 and 2017)","brand":"Equus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50848052969746,"sku":"9780993195570","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9ba56531-5574-47ae-b1f0-76602f65f73a.jpg?v=1737372159","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/glasshouse-9780993195570","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}