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The author, Ben Pastor, is Italian but has lived in America for some years and Lumen was originally written in English.
Thank you to Bitter Lemon Press for sending a copy of this book to the Bookbag. We also have a review of [[Liar Moon by Ben Pastor]].
Bitter Lemon specialises in crime fiction set in different locations – another of their novels is [[A Shortcut to Paradise by Teresa Solana and Peter Bush|A Shortcut to Paradise by Maria Solana]]. Alan Furst’s [[The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst|The Foreign Correspondent]] is a thriller set just before WWII. Another great book about Eastern Europe in this period is [[The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer]], the story of a Hungarian Jewish family.