Visegrad av Duncan Robertson

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<p>"<i>Visegrad</i> is very funny and very insightful¿into Central Europe, into the US, into the expat mind. I also have to reread it, probably right away, to sort out all the dizzying detail Robertson has packed it with. So, while I¿m rereading it, you should be getting started now on reading it the first time."</p><p><b>--Arthur Phillips, author of <i>Prague</i> and <i>The King at the Edge of the World</i></b></p><p>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 acq