Batlava Lake - Adam Mars-Jones painting Ranging from the age of

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices

and syrups

Working from this unique perspective

and the subject of this book—is a superb example of this modern master’s work

Batlava Lake - Adam Mars-Jones painting Ranging from the age ofPristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story