'A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside townintending to kill his father...' 

So begins Ann Quin's first novel, a debut 'sostaggeringly superior to most you'll never forget it - The Guardian.' 

Alistair Berg, hairrestorer, shares a mistress with his father. He will, he decides, eliminate his rival.After mutilating a ventriloquist's dummy, he finds himself accidentally seduced by theman he needs to kill. Mordant, heady, dark, Berg is Quin's masterpiece, a classic ofpost-war avant-garde British writing. 

'A mixture of the surreal, the whimsical and the macabre[...]Berg is funny andprofound, and intensely of its time' - Ian Patterson, London Review of Books