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The Fabric of Night CHRISTOPH PETERS, TRANS. FROM THE GERMAN BY JOHN CULLEN. Doubleday/Talese, $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-51447-7
At the start of Peters's challenging second novel, his first to be published in English, 28-year-old sculptor Albin Kranz is relaxing on the terrace of his Istanbul hotel when he witnesses the murder of an American "who looked like Marion Brando in old age" at an adjacent hotel. But neither his wife, Livia, nor the group of German art students the couple meet in Turkey, nor the clerk at the …