A real-life vanishing act leaves one man looking for his missing friend in thisย Kafkaesque new novelย from the author ofย The Roomย andย The Invoice.
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The gentle, off-beat narrator ofย The Circusย is perfectly content with his quiet life. By day he works in a bakery, and by night he obsessively organizes and reorganizes his record collection: itโs all just the way he likes it. But when his childhood friend Magnus comes calling out of the blue, the contours of our narratorโs familiar world begin to shift. On a visit to the circus together, Magnus volunteers to participate in the magicianโs disappearing act, and midway through the routine he vanishes. Is this part of the act? Whatโs happened to Magnus? And who is it calling on the phone in the dead of night, breathing into the receiver, but never saying a word?
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Smart, sharply unsettling, and with its sleight of hand exquisitely kept,ย The Circusย is a funhouse mirror of a readโone that ingeniously reveals the way we see ourselves and the stories we tell.