The Herald,
"...a sophisticated, stimulating and refreshingly unparochial piece of Scottish writing."
Scotland on Sunday
"...this is breathtaking stuff."
Independent on Sunday
"a gloriously misanthropic and bilious treatise on the decadent, immoral and inane nature of western European life."
Book Description
Rubio, a Parisian doctor, is a man asleep. How can he escape his back-biting colleagues, his unbearable reasonable ex-wife, the depression he increasingly diagnoses in the new-born? He knows the city hates him for every day it seizes him and forces him to pretend, to shop. Rubio runs for his life. Even unto Egypt. But memory rides behind, ever so gently applying the brakes.
Full of sharp, existential wit and observation, Odium is a very certain novel about our uncertain future.
Full of sharp, existential wit and observation, Odium is a very certain novel about our uncertain future.
About the Author
Peter Burnett was born of a farming family and spent his early years in Aberdeenshire. He has published several short stories and his first novel, The Machine Doctor, was shortlisted for Scottish Book of the Year 2002.
