
Sublunar
by Harald Voetmann
Title:
Sublunar
Author:
Harald Voetmann
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
160 pages
Publisher:
Lolli Editions
ISBN-13:
9781915267214
EAN:
9781915267214
Publication Date:
02/11/2023
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
330
Dimensions (mm):
130 x 197 x 17
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
In the sixteenth century, on the island of Hven, the pioneering Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, is undertaking an elaborate study of the night skyA great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world’s most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants—a filthy cast of characters—Sublunar is both novel and almanac. Alongside sexual deviancy, spankings, ruminations on a new nose—flesh, wood, or gold?—Brahe (a choleric and capricious character) and his peculiar helpers (“I would rather watch her globes tonight than icy stars”) take painstaking measurements that will revolutionize astronomy, long before the invention of the telescope. Meanwhile the plague rages in Europe…The second in Voetmann’s triptych of historical novels, Sublunar is as visceral, absurd, and tragic as its predecessor, Awake, but with a special nocturnal glow and a lunatic-edged gaze trained on the moon and the stars.











