Indigo : A Novel EPUB

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 doppelganger 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" (Der Spiegel).