Undermajordomo Minor
Subtitle: a novel
By: Patrick deWitt
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780062281227
Subjects: Castles; Fiction; Mountain life; Household employees
Other titles: Under major domo minor
Description: "Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. He also encounters the colorful people of the local village--thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behavior is laid bare for our hero to observe."