Download or read book Joseph Walser's Machine written by Gonçalo M. Tavares and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing Tavares's award-winning "Kingdom" series (begun in Jerusalem, winner of the Saramago Prize), Joseph Walser's Machine recounts a life of bizarre routines and patterns. Routine humiliation at a factory; routine maintenance of the world's most esoteric collection; and the most important routine of all: the operation of a mysterious machine on a factory floor. Yet all of Joseph Walser's routines are violently disrupted when his city is occupied by an invading army, leaving him faced with political intrigues, marital discord, and finally, one last, catastrophic confrontation with his beloved machine.