Secret Knowledge (Dedalus Original Fiction in Paperback) - Tapa blanda

'With its enthusiasm for secret societies and acts that echo through time, The Secret Knowledge mines the fruitful ground between Cloud Atlas and Foucault's Pendulum and some scenes are wonderful.' James Smart in The Guardian

'Crumey writes with unrelenting intelligence and gusto and even if Klauer's "secret knowledge" turns out to be an unplayable cover for dark dealings, Crumey's Secret Knowledge has a satisfying development and cadence.' Brian Morton in The Herald

'Andrew Crumey writes big fiction about big ideas; his previous novels confidently discuss the work of real-life thinkers such as Schroedinger or Goethe, and his latest is no exception...the book is an extraordinarily clever enterprise that repays close reading.' Gutter Magazine

..".an extraordinarily clever enterprise that repays close reading." -- Gutter Magazine

"With its enthusiasm for secret societies and acts that echo through time, it mines the fruitful ground between Cloud Atlas and Foucault's Pendulum..." -- James Smart, The Guardian

A lost musical masterpiece is at the heart of this gripping intellectual mystery by award-winning writer Andrew Crumey. In 1913 composer Pierre Klauer envisages marriage to his sweetheart and fame for his new work, The Secret Knowledge. Then tragedy strikes. A century later, concert pianist David Conroy hopes the rediscovered score might revive his own flagging career. Music, history, politics and philosophy become intertwined in a multi-layered story that spans a century. Revolutionary agitators, Holocaust refugees and sixties student protesters are counterpointed with artists and entrepreneurs in our own age of austerity. All play their part in revealing the shocking truth that Conroy must finally face the real meaning of The Secret Knowledge. it s a clever book, and funny, and thought-provoking; it mixes a whodunnit with the intellectual japes of Umberto Eco, and (not surprisingly for Crumey, who s a highly trained physicist) a bunch of quantum references. It s the sort of book that has you constantly flipping back through the chapters to check connections and coincidences; that makes you nod furiously once you figure something out. And, by the end, you want to start over again as fast as possible to see if you ve properly understood it Bookmunch"