Good News From Riga — Jonathan Falla

"Your parents know that somebody is spying on
them? Why doesn't your father rip down the microphone?"
"He's proud of it. He says, better spied on than
not worth spying on."

Jonathan Falla's sixth novel is a startling, creepy tale of exiles trapped in a city determined to ignore their presence. Making their homes in ruined factories, they constantly dream of their 'Return' while actually ever more embedded in a life of bizarre rituals. Into their shadow world comes a wealthy but naive surgeon who falls in love even as he feels contempt for their murderous politics. As the exiles' lifestyle threatens to devour their own young, the doctor attempts to escape with his girl... This is an intense, blackly comic story of longing and entrapment in the most peculiar of settings.

Of Jonathan Falla's previous work:
"A mature storyteller in full command of his craft."
Scottish Review of Books
"The tensions brooding beneath the surface gloss of
wonderfully incongruous humour keep one's nerves
constantly a-jangle before exploding."
City Limits
"An outstanding novel."
Sunday Times

Published by Stupor Mundi Books, Scotland UK