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Mac and His Problem
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Mac and His Problem
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Enrique Vila-Matas
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:224 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 233,Width 154 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780143788454
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Random House Australia
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| Imprint |
Vintage (Australia)
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| Publication Date |
16 April 2019 |
| Publication Country |
Australia
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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.
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