Reinhardt’s Garden - Mark Haber

Category: Historical Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Historical Satire

Written by Mark Haber
Read by Michael Crouch
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
Release date: 11-01-19

At the turn of the 20th century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village in search of his hero and unwitting mentor, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who is rumored to have disappeared into the South American jungle - “not lost, mind you, but retired.” Jacov’s narcissistic preoccupation with melancholy consumes him, and as he desperately recounts the myth of his journey to his trusted but ailing scribe, hope for an encounter with the lost philosopher who holds the key to Jacov’s obsession seems increasingly unlikely.

From Croatia to Germany, Hungary to Russia, and finally to the Americas, Jacov and his companions grapple with the limits of art, colonialism, and escapism in this antic debut where dark satire and skewed history converge.