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This Nobel Prize winning novel first published in 1935 is still considered 'One of the few great novels of the century' - Iris Murdoch

About the Author

Elias Canetti (1905-1994) born of Spanish-Jews parents, lived in in Vienna until 1937 and spent much of his working life in Britain during and after the war. He became a British citizen in 1952 but wrote in German, the language of his childhood and youth spent in Vienna, Zurich and Frankfurt.

Reviews

One of the few undoubted masterpieces of our time
*John Davenport*

A mad, magnificent work
*Spectator*

A strange, eloquent and terrifying book
*Polly Toynbee*

The work of a remarkable talent
*Observer*