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Budapest. Chico Buarque

By Chico Buarque

Budapest. Chico Buarque Contemporary literature

Budapest. Chico Buarque

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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 _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 ...
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
196
Release Date:
2005-08-01
Publication Date:
2005-08-15
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0747573700
ISBN13:
9780747573708
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
184 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
14 cm

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