A tragicomic family chronicle that spans two centuries and continents, Jetlag plays with modernist narrative mazes and mirages, while suggesting a landscape as haunting as the heaths of Wuthering Heights or the deserted streets of Nightwood. Evoking worlds irredeemably lost - the world of childhood, the world of ancestral Europe, the world of the great nineteenth-century novel - Clewes has produced a bold fiction, elegiacally caught, as its title suggests, between identities, cultures, and time-zones.