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Life: A User's Manual

Georges PerecSeries: Verba Mundi International Literature
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Pages
617
Year
2009
Language
English
Publisher
Verba Mundi

About

From the confessions of a racing cyclist to the plans of an avenging murderer, from a young ethnographer obsessed with a Sumatran tribe to an eccentric English millionaire, who has devised the ultimate pastime, Life: A User's Manual is a symphony of human irony, portraying the mixed marriages of fortunes, passions and despairs, betrayals and bereavements, of hundreds of lives in Paris and around the world.

The apartment block's one hundred rooms are arranged in a magic square, and the book as a whole is peppered with a staggering range of literary puzzles and allusions, acrostics, and problems of chess and logic. All are there for the reader to solve.

Related Subjects

  • Absurdist
  • Adult Fiction
  • City Life
  • Literary

Extended Details

  • SeriesVerba Mundi International Literature

    Artists

    Georges PerecAuthor