Outside the House of Baal Ivan Strpka 2008) and Landing Places (Dedalus

2008) and Landing Places (Dedalus Press

David Grossman

Lennart Sjögren

Kamila Shamsie

a suicide predicted in several of his novels

Outside the House of Baal Ivan Strpka 2008) and Landing Places (DedalusSpanning the twentieth century, Outside the House of Baal is the story of the conflict between public duty and personal love. In the course of a day J. T. Miles looks back over his life, a "Good Man" confronted by the choices of living. He is forced to contemplate the modern world (of which he feels no part) and his betrayal of his Welsh speaking heritage; the unsuitability of his marriage and his relationship with the woman who now shares his house;