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The Capital of Latecomers

by Nina Nenova

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Local folklore tells the story of an ancient people wandering through the desert, discovering an oasis-like paradise. But they stayed for too long, and when they returned home all their loved ones were dead. These people are forever known as the "latecomers." Now an exclusive compound providing residents with complete and utter privacy stands on the site where their village once was. Rhein, a thirty-year-old former darling of the art world, has lost his confidence and chosen the life of a recluse. When a body turns up in Rhein's studio, he has no choice but to come out of his yearlong seclusion to prove his innocence. More deaths occur, and the evidence incriminating Rhein is so convincing he honestly doesn't know what to believe. Working with his eccentric neighbors, all of whom are also hiding from their pasts, he finds that the path to the truth careens through tribal folklore and quantum physics, and nothing is as it seems.… (more)
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Really not sure what that was.

It turned out to be some sort of murder mystery with scifi/spiritual overtones. I'm just really not sure what else to say. ( )
  nbornstein | Mar 5, 2022 |
Translated from Bulgarian, this novel is an uneasy blend of literary fiction and murder mystery. Bizarre happenings in an upscale desert oasis retreat -- is it due to supernatural beings or is someone manipulating events? Or do the laws of physics for some reason behave differently at this specific location, allowing dark matter to interact with 'light' matter (regular everyday things)? Then murders start occurring... It was hard to follow in places but I found the ending satisfactory (though the epilogue was a tad pretentious). ( )
  leslie.98 | Sep 29, 2016 |
Uneasy combination of science fiction, murder mystery, and general strangeness creates a nice atmosphere and draws the reader in, but proceeds to meander through a lot of semi-nonsense before coming to a rather anticlimactic conclusion. Lots of good ideas here, but it needs much more focus. The author never succeeds in bringing most of the fairly large cast of characters to life. Her habit of ending a few chapters with revelations that only the characters can understand is also annoying. Or maybe i wasn't reading closely enough - but that's hardly my fault! ( )
  datrappert | Sep 21, 2015 |
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Nina Nenovaprimary authorall editionscalculated
Drummond, DavidCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Poleganov, VladimirTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Local folklore tells the story of an ancient people wandering through the desert, discovering an oasis-like paradise. But they stayed for too long, and when they returned home all their loved ones were dead. These people are forever known as the "latecomers." Now an exclusive compound providing residents with complete and utter privacy stands on the site where their village once was. Rhein, a thirty-year-old former darling of the art world, has lost his confidence and chosen the life of a recluse. When a body turns up in Rhein's studio, he has no choice but to come out of his yearlong seclusion to prove his innocence. More deaths occur, and the evidence incriminating Rhein is so convincing he honestly doesn't know what to believe. Working with his eccentric neighbors, all of whom are also hiding from their pasts, he finds that the path to the truth careens through tribal folklore and quantum physics, and nothing is as it seems.

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