{"product_id":"9780871402820","title":"Indigo: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn eerie and uncanny mystery, reminiscent of early Pynchon, and the American debut of one of the most acclaimed young European novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e In the Austrian state of Styria lies the Helianau Institute, a boarding school for children born with a mysterious condition known as Indigo syndrome. Anyone who comes near them immediately suffers from nausea and vertigo. Clemens Setz—a fictionalized doppelgänger of the author—is a young math teacher who loses his job at the school after attempting to investigate the mysterious “relocations” of several children. Fourteen years later, Robert, a former student, discovers a newspaper article about Setz’s acquittal for the murder of an animal abuser. Could there be a connection between this story, which continues to haunt Robert, and the puzzling events of the past? DeLillo-esque in its exploration of alienation and anxiety, Indigo weaves together bizarre historical anecdotes, such as Edison’s electrocution of an elephant, with pop cultural marginalia and pseudoscience to create a “literary work that makes its own laws . . . rich in dialogue and variety, amusing and anecdotal, but also brutal and unfathomable” (\u003cem\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/em\u003e).","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114771202288,"sku":"9780871402820","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780871402820_p0.jpg?v=1763833940","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780871402820","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}