Budapest: Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize - Softcover

Buarque, Chico

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747573700 ISBN 13: 9780747573708

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, a quirky and darkly humorous book from one of South America's most respected writers

'Buarque's most naturalistic fiction to date, and the funniest' - TLS
'The alluring, poetic quality of a dream described aloud' - Independent
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José Costa has just attended the Anonymous Writers Congress in Istanbul and is on his way back to Rio when a bomb scare on his flight forces him to spend a night in Budapest. Fascinated by the Hungarian language - he is after all a ghost writer by trade and a man who lives by language - he spends the night watching television, trying to pick out words in this tongue, 'the only one the devil respects'.

In charting José's life we enter a storytelling labyrinth, as his myth-making, love-making and essays into another culture become mired in the world where celebrities make reputations and fortunes from the writing of others, and where the reader is not sure what language, or what reality, is being offered ...

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Born in Rio de Janeiro, where he still lives, Chico Buarque is a world-renowned singer and composer. His novels Turbulence and Benjamin were translated into many languages.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0747573700
• ISBN 13: 9780747573708
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien