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The four stories of Part I vary in setting from Shinobazu Pond to 19th-century Germany, where Dostoevsky toils in despairing, poverty-stricken exile on Crime and Punishment. The "Nectar Fragments" of Part II are linked short stories set in the fictional Montreal suburb of Nectar, where an aging recluse living like a prisoner in the house in which he grew up struggles to recast the story of Abraham and Isaac into modern form. Was Abraham a saint, or a murderer? No one suspected the recluse himself had a son - who one day appears, seemingly out of nowhere...

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Nectar Fragments
• Author: Michael Hoffman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 564
• EAN: 9781425913861
• ISBN: 9781425913861
• ID: 08438184
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Weight: 607 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. June 2006

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