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    "annotation": "<p><strong>The novel that stunned\u0097and scandalized\u0097Europe comes to America<br /><br /></strong>Wolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London\u0092s gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been\u0097and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining another world. And when Wolf and Shomer's stories converge, we find ourselves drawn into a novel both shocking and profoundly haunting.<br /><br />At once a perfectly pitched hard-boiled noir thriller (with an utterly shocking twist) and a \u0093Holocaust novel like no other\u0094 (The Guardian), A Man Lies Dreaming is a masterful, unforgettable literary experiment from \u0093one of our best and most adventurous writers\u0094 (Locus).</p>",
    "description": "<p><span>Lavie Tidhar&rsquo;s ground-breaking, award winning novel&nbsp;</span><em>A Man Lies Dreaming</em><span>&nbsp;introduced Adolf Hitler as a down-at-heels private detective, forced to eke out a miserable living in 1930s London. Forgotten by history, the man now calling himself Wolf is the lowest of the low, suffering fresh humiliations at every turn.</span><br /><br /><span>Now Wolf is back, in five darkly comic new stories that see him take on blackmail, murder, and theft &ndash; not to mention his old comrades.</span><br /><br /><span>A brilliant alternate history noir with a heart, these stories are in turn shocking, horrifying and comic, as could only come from the mind of World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar.</span></p>",
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