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Berg by Ann Quin (Paperback, 2019)

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Alistair Berg hears where his father, who has been absent from his life since his infancy, is living. Without revealing his identity, Berg takes a room next to the one where his father and father’s mistress are lodging and he starts to plot his father’s elimination.

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'A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father...' So begins Ann Quin's first novel, a debut 'so staggeringly superior to most you'll never forget it - The Guardian.' Alistair Berg, hair restorer, shares a mistress with his father. He will, he decides, eliminate his rival. After mutilating a ventriloquist's dummy, he finds himself accidentally seduced by the man he needs to kill. Mordant, heady, dark, Berg is Quin's masterpiece, a classic of post-war avant-garde British writing. 'A mixture of the surreal, the whimsical and the macabre[...]Berg is funny and profound, and intensely of its time' - Ian Patterson, London Review of Books