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The Dream Maker
Author(s): Mikka Haugaard (Author)
- Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
- Publication Date: 22 Jan. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 176 pages
- ISBN-10: 1903517567
- ISBN-13: 9781903517567
Book Description
“I am a liar,” thought Max dreamily forking the antipasto which had arrived brought by a waiter with an apologetic and furtive air. “I knew lies before I knew sex, before I knew money. I am married to lies. And I shall stay married. I have made too many promises to do anything else.” But Max has told too many lies, and he is beginning to lose his nerve. He thinks he has lost control but where? Has it happened in New York, Saint Petersburg, London, Buenos Aires, or here in Rome? Who wants to betray this charismatic gargoyle of a man with his alluring chatter and solid presence which make up for his size? Max knows the answer: too many.
The story of Max is told by Rachel, Max is fictitious and it is the Max trilogy which made Rachel rich until she lost everything. Now lying in bed, like Scheherazade in The Thousand and One Nights, she is telling the story of Max, as well as her own story which is also the story of Tina Faithful and le Comte de Braband; a story of love, death and betrayal. The Dream Maker is a dark comedy, rich in ambiguity, in which nothing is quite what it seems.
The story of Max is told by Rachel, Max is fictitious and it is the Max trilogy which made Rachel rich until she lost everything. Now lying in bed, like Scheherazade in The Thousand and One Nights, she is telling the story of Max, as well as her own story which is also the story of Tina Faithful and le Comte de Braband; a story of love, death and betrayal. The Dream Maker is a dark comedy, rich in ambiguity, in which nothing is quite what it seems.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This playfulness makes us question everything, including the identity of the narrator even, perhaps, the identity of the author. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit to discover that Mikka Haugaard, supposedly born in Denmark to Danish and American parents and now teaching in a London school, is a pseudonym. The principal characters in her novels go by various names. Oleg, the KGB officer in Gabriel’s Bureau, is cremated as Steve Newton, and Gabriel travels to Palermo as Pierre Bezukhov. Whoever Haugaard really is, she writes with great wit, flair and invention. I’m already looking forward to her third novel. –Nicholas Royle in The Independent
About the Author
Mikka Haugaard was born in Denmark in 1953. Her father is Danish and her mother American and she grew up bi-lingual. She studied classics at Cambridge University and did research in Roman history. She now teaches classics and psychology at a London school and lectures for the Open University. She is married with two children. She is the author of two novels: Gabriel’s Bureau and the Dream Maker and is currently translating Marie Grubbe by Jens Peter Jacobsen for Dedalus which will be published in the latter part of 2013.
