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Zusatztext 'Biografi leaves you wishing that a real-life Shapallo may still show up' Informationen zum Autor Lloyd Jones is the author of several novels and short story collections which include Mister Pip , winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize best book award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007, The Book of Fame and H and Me Down World , which was shortlisted for the Berlin International Prize. He has also published a memoir, A History of Silence . He lives in New Zealand. Klappentext From the acclaimed author of Mister Pip.From the acclaimed author of Mister Pip . Zusammenfassung When Biografi was first published, it was met first with enormous critical acclaim - only to become the centre of a heated controversy. Was it fact or fiction? Had Lloyd Jones concocted his story of life in the new Albania? Or was it travel literature as its publishers insisted? Equal parts travelogue, political reportage and bizarre mystery novel, Lloyd Jones crosses Albania as it reinvents itself - a volatile, surreal wonderland where nothing is quite as it seems.
