Fair and democratic in her hatred of everyone—the old the fat the poor—Sophira van Ness resurrects Adolf Hitler has her hero. Disturbing, but charismatic, Sophira draws the reader into a world of haunted reality and perverse glamour. In Sophira, the author has created a seductive monster. LAMPSHADES is both blackly funny and utterly original and confronts banality and evil with a cool, unflinching gaze.