The Hour of Parade

Winner 2014 IndieReader Discovery Award - Best Literary FictionB.R.A.G. Medallion Award WinnerOne violent act draws together three very different people in Alan Bray's haunting debut, The Hour of Parade.The year is 1806, and Russian cavalry officer Alexi Ruzhensky journeys to Munich in disguise to kill the French officer responsible for murdering his brother in a duel.Alexi, obsessed by the main character in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel Julie, procrastinates and becomes romantically entangled with a young Bavarian woman.As the novel comes to its explosive conclusion, Alexi will learn that revenge can neither be easily accomplished nor avoided.An intricately woven history of love, lust, and murder, The Hour of Parade has been called "a literary treat," and "a work of remarkable elegance."