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Praised by Booker Prize winner David Szalay as a “strange, humane and beautiful book,” A Cat At the End of the World cements Robert Perišić’s reputation as one of the most exciting and important contemporary writers in Europe. Delivered like a fable, this graceful, lyrical novel shifts perspectives between a runaway slave and Scatterwind, a bodiless spirit that moves effortlessly through time and space, from the days of ancient Syracuse to our contemporary era.

A group of entrepreneurs brings roaring back to life a defunct turbine factory and the town around it, promising a return to the days of dignity, jobs and the good life and bright future that a manufacturing center can dispense to a small town. But is a return to the days of plenty possible? And what of the changed relationships between lovers, and within families, that have transpired in the years since that earlier time? Perišić takes us there, into the past and into the future, and watches with a bemused sad smile as the inevitable wreaks havoc with the possible.