(F is for forgery, too.) They’ve settled into their life choices, but when the summer of the global financial crisis dawns they’re thrown together again with cataclysmic results. (F is for faith, and lack of it.) Eric becomes a financier (F is for fraud), losing touch with reality as he faces ruin, while Ivan, destined for glory as a painter, instead becomes a forger. (F is for fake.)īut what of the boys? Martin, painfully shy, grows up to be a Catholic priest without a vocation. He’s going to become a world-famous author, a master of the mystical.
That night, Arthur empties the family bank account, takes his passport, and vanishes.
He gets Arthur to tell him his deepest secrets and then tells him to make them real. While allowing one of them to be called onto the stage and made a spectacle of, Arthur declares himself to be immune to hypnosis and a disbeliever in all magic. F is for fate.įrom the internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World, here is a dazzling tragicomedy about three brothers whose father takes on the occult and both wins and loses.Īrthur is a dilettante, a wannabe writer who decides to fill an afternoon by taking his three young sons to a performance by the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis.
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