Title: Batlava Lake
Description: Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars-Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.
Subjects: English literature, Fiction, History, Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, War, British Literature, Novella, Literary Fiction
Places: Pristina (Kosovo)
People: Barry Ashton
Time periods: Kosovo War, 1998-1999