Summary
A funny, erudite novel from one of the great European storytellers, with the process of writing and creation playfully at its heart.
Mac, over sixty and recently unemployed, lives on his wife’s earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac’s wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depression-but Mac persists, and is determined that th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143788454 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143788450 |
| Author: | Enrique Vila-Matas |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 154mm x 17mm |
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Enrique Vila-Matas
Enrique Vila-Matas is widely considered to be one of Spain’s most important contemporary novelists. His work has been translated into 30 languages and has won numerous international literary prizes, including the Herralde Prize, the Prix Medicis etranger and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. Vila-Matas’ books have been longlisted (Montano) and shortlisted (Dublinesque) for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Never Any End to Paris was a finalist for the US Best Translated Book Award.
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