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In the best-selling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers comes a brilliant and boisterous book that reimagines the folk story. A love tale, an adventure tale, a fable with out a moral, and an ink-black funny of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited follow-up to the internationally best-selling and critically acclaimed book The Sisters Brothers. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the citizen peculiar duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town well-known for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment helping the Majordomo of the remote control, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the area harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. He also encounters the bright colored people of the local community - thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a sensitive beauty whose love he must compete for with the remarkably good looking soldier, Adolphus. Thus commences an account of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, local unknown, and cold-blooded murder in which every part of human behavior is laid bare for our hero to see. Undermajordomo Minor can be an adventure, a unknown, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behavior, but most importantly it is just a love tale, and Lucy must be cautious, for love is a violent thing.
