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Mac and His Problem
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
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Retail Price: | $32.99 |
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ISBN: 9780143788454
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2019
Published By: Random House Australia
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Published: April 2019
Published By: Random House Australia
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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....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....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.