![]() ![]() And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing. It is an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. Undermajordomo Minor is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Governor General’s Award–winning author of The Sisters Brothers. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder. In the local village, he also encounters thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome partisan soldier, Adolphus. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s master, Baron Von Aux. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. ![]() Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. On the The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2015 LonglistĪ love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners. ![]()
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