Sarah A Smith
Cult Fiction
The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge
By Patricia Duncker
Bloomsbury 262pp £11.99 order from our bookshop
Patricia Duncker is a novelist of ideas. Her work has encompassed French postmodernism, gender politics, postcolonialism and cultural diversity. Her fifth novel, The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge, takes on monotheist sects, astronomy, opera and the battle between rationalism and mysticism. Like much of her previous fiction, it does so within the context of a thriller.
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