Case Closed Historial and the Lannan Literary Award

and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction

particularly a change in attitudes toward marriage and child-rearing

and literary reflection

" —Jack Friedman

Case Closed Historial and the Lannan Literary Awardby Patrik Ourednik translated by Alex Zucker Publication Date: 06 08 2010 ISBN: 9781564785770 Centered on an elderly retiree and his intellectual adversary, the shrewd Inspector Lebeda, "Case Closed" is filled with all the expected elements of a thriller murder, rape, suicide! but soon reveals itself as a wily and sophisticated parable about the dangers of language itself, in which the author takes aim at human nature with a devastating arsenal of