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Indigo
Indigo
Clemens Setz (born 1982)
Translated by Ross Benjamin
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Indigo
Liveright · United States · 2014 · 386 pages
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Indigo
Serpent's Tail · United Kingdom · 2014 · 386 pages
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Helianau is a boarding school for children with a mysterious disorder, the Indigo syndrome: anyone who comes close to them is struck by nausea, dizziness and violent headaches. A maths teacher there, who has the author's own name, notices strange goings-on: again and again, masked children are driven away in a car to an unknown destination. When he starts to investigate, he is dismissed. Fifteen years later, the papers report on the trial of a former maths teacher suspected of murder. Among human monsters and compassionate objects, the book asks how empathy works once religion and morality fall away.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 475 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative, Crime (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2012 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 30 when first published
- ISBN
9783518423240 (original)
9780871402684 (Liveright, United States)
9781846689536 (Serpent's Tail, United Kingdom)
- More
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