| As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon investigates a faceless corpse unearthed on a municipal dump, Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. |
| An apartment block is destroyed, and when it is discovered that its basement housed a mosque, everybody's terrorist fears are confirmed. Panic sweeps the city. More bodies are dragged from the rubble. And the climate of fear infects everyone, as terror invades the domestic life of flamboyant judge Calderon and the troubled mind of Consuelo, Falcon's one-time lover. |
| With the media and political pressure intensifying, Falcon realises all is not as it appears. But as he comes close to cracking a conspiracy, he discovers an even more terrifying plot "" and the race is on to prevent a catastrophe far beyond Spain's borders. |
| The Ministry of Special Cases Nathan Englander Faber and Faber Rs 495 352 pages |
| This is the long-awaited first novel from Nathan Englander, author of the short-story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, which won the 2000 Pen/Malamud Award and was translated into more than a dozen languages. |
| From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won't accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends his nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence "" and denies a checkered history that only Kaddish holds dear. |
| When the nightmare of the disappeared children brings the Poznan family to its knees, they are thrust into the unyielding corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases, the refuge of last resort. |
| In a world turned upside down, where the past and the future, the nature of truth itself, all take shape according to a corrupt government's whims, one man fights to overcome his history and his name, and, if for only once in his life, to put things right. |
| Here again are all the marvellous qualities for which Englander's first book was beloved: his exuberant wit and invention, his cosmic sense of the absurd, his genius for balancing joyfulness and despair. |
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