Book description
'Here is art which conceals art, and intellect which conceals
intellect, so that by the end of the book one feels that one
understands something one had not understood before. Mr Hall is witty
and amusing, but not snide; he has a lightness of touch which allows
him to write of extremely serious matters without solemnity; he knows
how to convey a great deal in a few words' Sunday Telegraph
'He is an observant and witty writer...you believe implicitly that
he has met the people he writes about, and that they said what he
quotes them as saying' Sunday Times
Brian Hall was born in 1959. He grew up in Massachusetts and attended
Harvard College. After two years spent travelling in Western and Eastern
Europe, he wrote
Stealing from a Deep Place: Travels in South-Eastern
Europe,
and a novel set in Vienna,
The Dreamers.
From 1989 through 1991 he made several trips to Yugoslavia, in
preparation for writing
The Impossible Country.
He currently lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and daughter.
