What if Tolstoy and Monty Python met at a party, got very drunk and decided to write a novel?
Patrick deWitt’s third novel takes us to an unnamed Russo-Romanian land in the steam age. Our comic hero, a village lad named Lucien (Lucy) Minor, travels to a remote castle to begin his career as the undermajordomo in Baron Van Aux’s eccentric household. On the train he avoids being robbed … Continue reading