num_pages: 105
description: "Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects." Martin Amis
language: English
title: Transparent Things
titlecomplete: Transparent Things
characters: Hugh Person
genres: 20th Century, American, Russia, Novella, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 4076
places: Witt
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage