What happens when we lose the narrative of our own life, and fall into someone else's?
Felix Culpa is a work of extraordinary literary alchemy: a novel made out of lines taken from a hundred great works of literature. It follows a writer on the trail of a boy recently released from prison, who has been discovered dead in the cold north, frozen and alone. But in searching for the boy's story, will he lose his own?
A convention-challenging novel comprised of lines taken from a hundred great works of literature, telling the story of a writer's search for the story of a boy who froze to death following release from prison - the search for the boy's story posing the threat of encompassing the writer's own.
'[The Book of Israel] has that quality of inevitability all fine writing contains. Within a few pages the reader knows that Jeremy Gavron has found a structure that is his own and effortlessly unique. Innovative and engrossing.'
