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|author=Adam Thirlwell
|title=The Escape
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet seventy-eight year-old Raphael Haffner, he is hiding in a spa hotel closet watching a twenty-something year-old yoga instructor (who knows he's there) having sex with her boyfriend (who doesn't). Haffner is a British, Jewish former banker who is staying at the spa in Central Europe while on a mission to reclaim his dead wife's villa that was confiscated by the Nazis in the war. Thirlwell's narrator, some fifty years younger than Haffner (ie the age of the author), describes the aging libertine Haffner as ''lustful, selfish, vain - an entirely commonplace man''. Charming.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539837</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adrian Hyland
