Books like The Messiah of Stockholm

In Stockholm of 1980 or so a man is living in a tiny cold water flat. He writes reviews for a local newspaper of modest circulation. He is a refugee from war-torn Poland and, he says, the son of that Polish genius -- shot by a Nazi in the streets of Drohobycz Poland in 1942 -- Bruno Schulz. He is obsessed with his father's legacy, most notably the lost manuscript known to us today as The Messiah. He befriends a bookseller in town, a Mrs. Eklund, with whom he shares his literary obsessions, and virtually assails with orders of works by obscure Polish authors. From this slight beginning a deliciously complex literary caper ensues which sent many a shiver of pleasure and astonishment through this reader. The way the novel takes up Bruno Schulz's biography and makes it its own is extraordinary. Lars Amendening, for that is the name Schulz's son assumed on being adopted by his Swedish foster parents, is given a rather abrupt awakening from his dreamlike and socially unremarkable life. Fantastic writing here. I must read this one again. I think it will last, at least I hope it will. Recommended to my fellow GoodReaders with something approaching ecstatic joy....One of the most accomplished novels I've read.