When Lucas, a down-at-heel New Yorker, catches a glimpse of a woman in a small spanish town, his life is changed.
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Conspiracies, a return to a matriarchal system, a visionary narrator, and twists in time itself are just a few of the elements that make up Dutch writer Hans Koning's brilliant and challenging novel, Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History. The hinge to which the title refers is a millenarian dream of a matriarchal society in which peace would become the norm, wealth would be equally shared, and strife would be unknown. This utopia is the goal of a group of conspirators consisting of the narrator, Lucas, a beautiful woman named Maria, and a group of Basque separatists--unlikely bedfellows, to be sure, and ones not necessarily in agreement on all the details concerning their New World Order. Rife with symbolism, unreliable narrators, and events that may or may not be the hallucinations of a disordered mind, Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History is by turns puzzling and exhilarating, a metaphysical roller coaster for the imagination.
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In addition to a number of nonfiction works on such varied topics as Vermeer, the American Indian and China, the Dutch-born writer Hans Koning has published 11 well-received novels.... His newest, the first in eight years, is Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History.... this novel could be described as a metaphysical thriller. -- The New York Times Book Review, William Ferguson
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