Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans

Informationen zum Autor Luis Fernando Verissimo is one of Brazil's most popular writers thanks to his satirical columns in the national weekly Veja . He is also a celebrated novelist and cartoonist! and he plays the saxophone in a jazz band. His novel The Club of Angels was published by Harvill. Klappentext Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, and finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons. Zusammenfassung Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, and finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons.

Product details

• Authors: Luis Fernando Verissimo, Verissimo Luis Fernando
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2005
• EAN: 9780099461678
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946167-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Buenos Aires, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Satire, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Noir, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Satirical fiction and parodies