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Book of Chameleons
Book of Chameleons
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2 October, 2006
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Typically for Agualusa this novel is beautifully written, rich in detail and imagination but always light and surprising. A delight to read and reread...It is quite some pages into "The Man Who Sold Pasts" before you realise the narrator - rather charming, witty as he is - is a lizard. A very articulate, and very friendly lizard, and - like all Agualusa's narrators - unusually perceptive. But a lizard nonetheless. This narrator lives on Felix Ventura's living-room wall; Felix, the lizard's friend and hero of our story, is a man who sells pasts - if you don't like yours, he can come up with an entirely new one for you, a new past - full of better memories, with a complete lineage (as distinguished as you like), photos and all. This is a book about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies and randomness, about how we can remember things that never happened with extraordinary vividness, and forget things that did.
Prizes
Winner of Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2007
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781905147151 |
| ISBN10 | 1905147155 |
| Number Of Pages | 256 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Quercus Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
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"'Told in short, ironic senses, The Man Who Sold Pasts is consistently taut and witty' - TLS"
Author's Bio
Jose Eduardo Agualusa was born in Huambo, Angola in 1960. For a number of years he lived in Rio de Janeiro and has now settled in Lisbon. His novel Creole, which has evoked comparisons to Bruce Chatwin's The Viceroy of Ouidah, was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature, and is a bestseller in Angola, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain.