Batlava Lake
2021
First Published
3.21
Average Rating
120
Number of Pages
Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars-Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.
Avg Rating
3.21
Number of Ratings
265
5 STARS
6%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
46%
2 STARS
12%
1 STARS
5%
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Author
Adam Mars-Jones
Author · 13 books
Adam Mars-Jones is a British writer and critic.
