Jose Eduardo Agualusa
The Book of Chameleons
The Book of Chameleons
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A bookish albino man, a beautiful woman, a mysterious foreigner, and a witty talking lizard come together to discover their real origins in Angola, a world where the truth shifts and history is up for grabs.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Ingenious, consistently taut and witty TLS Humorous and quizzical, with a light touch on weighty themes, the narrative darts about with lizard-like colour and velocity Independent Strange, elliptical, charming Guardian A poetic, beguiling meditation on truth and storytelling . . . from the dreamscapes of magical realism to a gripping political thriller and even a murder mystery New Internationalist Félix Ventura trades in memories, a slippery character selling new pasts to people whose bright futures lack only a good lineage, and wiping clean the slate of their identity. In a narrative that darts between past and present Angola, a bookish albino man, a beautiful woman, a mysterious foreigner and a witty talking lizard come together to discover their real origins. For theirs is a world where the truth seems to shift from moment to moment and where history itself is up for grabs. A work of fierce originality Independent Without doubt one of the most important Portuguese-language writers of his generation ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES Cross J. M. Coetzee with Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and you ve got José Eduardo Agualusa ALAN KAUFMAN Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
Weight: 142g
Dimension: 130 x 196 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529426489
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