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Mac and His Problem

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Mac and His Problem
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Enrique Vila-Matas
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 233,Width 154
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780143788454
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House Australia
Imprint Vintage (Australia)
Publication Date 16 April 2019
Publication Country Australia

Description

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 this diary will not turn into a novel. However, one day, he has a chance encounter with a near neighbour, a highly successful author who once wrote a collection of enigmatic, wilfully obscure stories....

Author Biography

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 R mulo Gallegos. Vila-Matas' books have been longlisted (Montano) and shortlisted (Dublinesque) for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Never Any End to Pariswas a finalist for the US Best Translated Book Award.