Robert Exley works for the Faculty: he spends his life making sure that nothing ever happens. In counter-terrorism, that’s your job. But something’s going on.
His wife, Mary, also worked at the Faculty. She’s been dead for years, but somehow she’s never far away.
His father worked there, too, and spent a lifetime on a mountaintop watching out for signals, hoping not to see them. His bookish teenage son, Stephen, writes an encrypted journal Exley feels obliged to decode, to read the things they cannot talk about. Lately it’s all about the boy’s grandfather. And even if it’s mostly fiction, Exley knows there’s only one end to that story.
The Faculty of Indifference is a comedy about counter-terrorism, torture, boredom, suicide and death by natural causes. Trapped between the memory of an intolerable past and the anticipation of so much worse to come, Exley finds there’s nothing he can do but live.
His wife, Mary, also worked at the Faculty. She’s been dead for years, but somehow she’s never far away.
His father worked there, too, and spent a lifetime on a mountaintop watching out for signals, hoping not to see them. His bookish teenage son, Stephen, writes an encrypted journal Exley feels obliged to decode, to read the things they cannot talk about. Lately it’s all about the boy’s grandfather. And even if it’s mostly fiction, Exley knows there’s only one end to that story.
The Faculty of Indifference is a comedy about counter-terrorism, torture, boredom, suicide and death by natural causes. Trapped between the memory of an intolerable past and the anticipation of so much worse to come, Exley finds there’s nothing he can do but live.
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About the author
Guy Ware is the author of two novels and many stories. His collection, You Have 24 Hours to Love Us (Comma, 2012) included the story ‘Hostage’, subsequently included in the Best British Short Stories 2013 (Salt). His first novel, The Fat of Fed Beasts (Salt, 2015), was chosen as a ‘Paperback of the year’ by Nicholas Lezard in the Guardian, and described as ‘Brilliant … the best debut novel I have read in years.’ His second novel, Reconciliation, will be published in September 2017.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 239 ● ISBN 9781784631772 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Publisher Salt ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6808565 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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