The Manual of Detection by Jedediah BerryMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A unique, fascinating, and surprising detective novel. Berry has created a very plausible world of clerks, detective, and criminals in which the powers of order and disorder (embodied by a detective agency and a carnival, respectively) vie for control of a city's inhabitants. The prose has a very carefully written feel and the author seems to take great pleasure, as does his main character the clerk, in precise narrative details so that the story manages to be simultaneously logical and dreamlike. My only complaint is that the story is a bit slow at first - but once it picked up, I couldn't put it down.
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