Batlava Lake - Adam Mars-Jones performance and participation

and participation

The short story collection that launched Tabucchi to fame

all the result of Giotto’s unrivaled genius

moving pictures and stereo recordings as the ideal form of scientific evidence

along with a section introducing the Biennial’s contributors

Batlava Lake - Adam Mars-Jones performance and participationPristina, 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