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You cannot escape this book, you already hear its thunder!\" --Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEye of the Monkey \u003c\/i\u003ebegins in the wake of a devastating civil war that led to the formation of the United Regency, an autocracy in an unnamed European country. The ravages of war are sweeping, and the populace has been divided into segregated zones, where the well-off are under mass surveillance and the poor are phantom presences, confined and ghettoized. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the verge of a nervous breakdown after being followed by a young man for weeks, Giselle, a history professor at the New University, seeks the help of Dr. Mihály Kreutzer, a psychiatrist who is navigating divorce and the recent death of his mother. They soon begin a torrid love affair, but everything is not what it seems. 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