A haunting and humourous tale in the vein of Kafka and Camus, Frisch's fine 1954 novel tells of Jim White, a man who claims to have been falsely imprisoned and who will stop at nothing to prove his innocence - even confessing to other crimes. Quite brilliant.
The comic and disturbing story of Walter Faber, whose careful, rational life begins to unravel after his plane makes a crash-landing in the Mexican desert.