One Who Disappeared [signed jhc]

by David Herter, Vladimir Verano (Illustrator)

From David Herter, whose work Kirkus Reviews called ""distinctive and imaginative, moving to its own disconcerting logic,"" comes a poignant and masterful novel about a group of artists from the hinterland of Europe between the World Wars, who clash with the clockwork of Time.

368 pages, Hardcover

Published January 11, 2011

About the author

David Herter is a graduate of Clarion West 1990, where his instructors included Gene Wolfe. In 2004 he spent a month in the Czech Republic celebrating the 150th anniversary of Leoš Janáček’s birth, an experience that led to his First Republic trilogy On the Overgrown Path, The Luminous Depths, and One Who Disappeared. His other novels include the far-future Ceres Storm, the Vernian cheese fantasy Evening’s Empire, and the Halloween horror October Dark. Forthcoming is epic planetary romance The Cold Heavens, inspired by C. L. Moore, Gustav Meyrink, and Weimar Berlin. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Visit his blog at www.davidherter.blogspot.com.