An epic and fascinating venture into wide screen baroque fantasy by an established literary author, this sprawling novel travels through the ages from decadent Vienna to present day Manhattan, passing through the horror of the death camps holocaust. One morning, Waldy Tolliver wakes up and discovers he has been removed from time and begins to write his memoir. Borrowing from the time travel tropes of pulp science fiction, but with a contemporary sensibility, we follow, almost bemused, a darkly playful plot which fizzes with imagination, featuring doomed love, Einsteinian theories, the wonders of science and history but not always as we know it and so much more. The narrative seldom allows time to catch one's breath and becomes truly epic in scale, as the origins of the Toula/Tolliver family are revealed, intricately tied in to so many major events and discoveries. Lest this provides the impression the novel is a diffiocult one, let me say it's also peppered with humour. A challenge and a fizzy delight.
The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar 'Waldy' Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled from the flow of time. The world continues to turn, and Waldy is desperate to find his way back. In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumours about Einstein's radical new theory to the death camps of the Second World War, from the golden age of post-war pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a modern-day Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artefacts of contemporary life.
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