The Fugue - (New Chicago Classics) by Gint Aras (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>After over a decade in prison, a young sculptor, Yuri Dilienko, returns to his old neighborhood in Cicero, Illinois. He finds the town stripped of so many places he used to know, while the town's familiar streets, bricks and steeples trigger memories of his traumatic youth. To convalesce, he sculpts from collected scrap metal, but his arrival in town soon rouses a young girl, Lita Avila, to curiosity. Could this reclusive and oddly quiet man, whose art is sensitive yet intense, truly be guilty of setting fire to his parents' bungalow and burning them alive? At once an homage to the urban grit of Nelson Algren and the family sagas of Leo Tolstoy, <i>The Fugue</i> is a true epic that spans three generations and over fifty years, a major new achievement in the history of Chicago literature. It considers the effects of war and the silent, haunting traumas inherited by children of displaced refugees. Gint Aras's lucid yet lyrical prose braids and weaves a tale where memory and imagination merge, time races and drags, and identity collapses and shifts without warning.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Aras has created damaged and intricate characters. [<i>The Fugue</i>] is a wholly complex original that demands to be read. <b>-- <i>Gapers Block</i></b><br></br>[M]agisterial...Like Dostoyevsky and the other Russian masters to whom Aras is clearly indebted, this book doesn't shy away from the big themes, and yet he has written a story that should have no trouble holding many a reader under its spell. <b>-- <i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br></br>A sprawling, fascinating novel...a grand addition to the bookshelf of Chicago authors. <b>-- Rick Kogan, WGN Radio</b><br></br>A marvelous book. Intricately arranged and composed of raw emotion, <i>The Fugue</i> resonates well beyond its last page. In the tradition of the great Russian novel, perhaps closest to <i>Dr. Zhivago</i>, <i>The Fugue</i> is a joy to read: full of surprises, unashamed of emotion but never sentimental, a sincere, big-souled book. <b>-- Dan Vyleta, author of <i>The Crooked Maid</i></b><br></br>A remarkably graceful, complex, multi-layered work, beautifully executed, intricately plotted, steeped in historical authenticity--a genuine, serious accomplishment. Gint Aras has written a book of lasting value. <b>-- Mikhail Iossel, author of <i>Every Hunter Wants to Know</i></b><br></br><i>The Fugue</i> is a masterpiece of literary fiction that echoes novels like <i>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</i>, <i>Les Miserables</i>, and <i>To the Lighthouse</i> with its cross-generational plot line and deep-seated narrative about the struggles, sadness and often futile nature of life...Beautifully composed and entirely unforgettable, Gint Aras' <i>The Fugue</i> is a must-read for the year. <b>-- <i>Centered on Books</i></b><br></br>Highly entertaining...important and brilliant. <b>-- <i>Heavy Feather Review</i></b><br></br>A must-read. <b>-- <i>Newcity</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Gint Aras (Karolis Gintaras Zukauskas) is a Columbia University MFA. His writing has appeared in The St. Petersburg Review, Quarterly West, Antique Children, Criminal Class Review, Curbside Splendor, Siaures Atenai, Dialogo, The Good Men Project and other publications. He's also the author of two novels, Finding the Moon in Sugar (Infinity, 2009) and The Fugue (Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, December 2015.) Learn more at Liquid Ink: http: //gint-aras.co
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