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THE ODYSSEY BOOKSHOP PRESENTS AN IN PERSON EVENT: DUNCAN ROBERTSON "Visegrad"

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Wed, Mar 30, 2022

7 PM – 8 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Wednesday, March 30 at 7 PM

Join us live and in-person on Wednesday, March 30 at 7 PM as Duncan Robertson discusses his new novel, "Visegrad." He will be joined in conversation by Paul Olchvry, publisher of New Europe Books.

Meet Rye, a young American writer adrift in Visegrad, where the national sport is appearing to work as hard as possible while doing nothing at all. Things get complicated in this rollicking satire when Rye partners with a loan-shark who has purchased the outstanding student debt of his fellow expats. He squares their accounts by signing the likes of Colin Having, who suspects the world's dogs of conspiring against
him, H. Defer, who is developing a universal theory based on the wetness of feet, and the SEC man, who has been sent to Visegrad to determine how Rye's boss acquires individual student loans.

Before long, Rye discovers he is being followed. Customers disappear and he is no longer free to leave the country. Rye realizes that he must sabotage the lucrative business he has helped build, or else abandon his friends to a shady cabal in the Visegrad government.

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