Indigo

In the Austrian state of Styria lies the Helianau Institute, a boarding school for children born with a mysterious condition known as Indigo syndrome. Anyone who comes near them immediately suffers from nausea and vertigo. Clemens Setz--a fictionalized doppelgänger of the author--is a young math teacher who loses his job at the school after attempting to investigate the mysterious "relocations" of several children. Fourteen years later, Robert, a former student, discovers a newspaper article about Setz's acquittal for the murder of an animal abuser. Could there be a connection between this story, which continues to haunt Robert, and the puzzling events of the past? DeLillo-esque in its exploration of alienation and anxiety, Indigo weaves together bizarre historical anecdotes, such as Edison's electrocution of an elephant, with pop cultural marginalia and pseudoscience to create a "literary work that makes its own laws . . . rich in dialogue and variety, amusing and anecdotal, but also brutal and unfathomable" (Der Spiegel).

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/03/2014
ISBN: 9780871402684
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.59w x 1.28d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 09/15/2014
Booklist 11/01/2014 pg. 27
Library Journal 11/15/2014 pg. 81
New Yorker (The) 01/12/2015 pg. 71