Seven Types of Ambiguity (novel)

Seven Types of Ambiguity
Author Elliot Perlman
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher Picador
Publication date
2003
Media type Print Paperback
Pages 607 pp
ISBN 0330364235 (first edition, paperback)
Preceded by Three Dollars
Followed by The Street Sweeper

Seven Types of Ambiguity is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Elliot Perlman.

Plot summary

The novel is narrated by seven different characters whose lives intersect in various ways. The first of these, Alex Klima, is a Czech psychiatrist who has been hired to treat Simon for his depression. Simon is obsessed with his ex-lover Anna, and it is this obsession that leads him on a downward path.

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Notes

God has pity on kindergarten children.
He has less pity on school children.
And on grownups he has no pity at all,
he leaves them alone,
and sometimes they must crawl on all fours...
(Yehuda Amichai)

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