Kleinzeit Lydia Davis Dark Neighbourhood heralds the arrival

Dark Neighbourhood heralds the arrival of a strikingly original new voice in fiction

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Kleinzeit Lydia Davis Dark Neighbourhood heralds the arrival'An original a delight to read' The Times On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a quest involving, among other things, a glockenspiel, sheets of yellow paper, Orpheus, the Underground and that dirty chimpanzee, Death. 'Kleinzeit, is a sort