Other People: A Mystery Story
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A young woman wakes up in a hospital with no memory of who she is — no name, no past, no understanding of the strange and brutal world she now inhabits. Other People: A Mystery Story follows this unnamed amnesiac as she navigates a bewildering urban landscape, encountering a cast of eccentric and often menacing characters, guided only by the shadowy presence of a detective named Prince who seems to know far more about her than he reveals. The novel unfolds with an atmosphere of dreamlike dread, as the boundary between victim and predator, identity and oblivion, grows increasingly unstable. Martin Amis constructs a labyrinthine narrative that is as much a philosophical puzzle as it is a thriller, interrogating the nature of consciousness, selfhood, and the violence that underpins everyday existence. His prose is razor-sharp and darkly lyrical, infused with the mordant wit that defines his finest work. Hailed by the *Sunday Times* as enthralling and disturbing, this is a novel that leaves its questions unanswered by design — because the real mystery may not be who she was, but whether any of us truly know ourselves at all.
Author: Martin Amis
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A young woman wakes up in a hospital with no memory of who she is — no name, no past, no understanding of the strange and brutal world she now inhabits. Other People: A Mystery Story follows this unnamed amnesiac as she navigates a bewildering urban landscape, encountering a cast of eccentric and often menacing characters, guided only by the shadowy presence of a detective named Prince who seems to know far more about her than he reveals. The novel unfolds with an atmosphere of dreamlike dread, as the boundary between victim and predator, identity and oblivion, grows increasingly unstable. Martin Amis constructs a labyrinthine narrative that is as much a philosophical puzzle as it is a thriller, interrogating the nature of consciousness, selfhood, and the violence that underpins everyday existence. His prose is razor-sharp and darkly lyrical, infused with the mordant wit that defines his finest work. Hailed by the *Sunday Times* as enthralling and disturbing, this is a novel that leaves its questions unanswered by design — because the real mystery may not be who she was, but whether any of us truly know ourselves at all.