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Self-Portrait Abroad

✍ Scribed by Toussaint, Jean-Philippe

Book ID: 109854476
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 33 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

In Self-Portrait Abroad , our narrator — a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself — travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossip in Tokyo and has a battle of nerves in a butcher shop in Berlin; he wins a boules tournament in Cap Corse, takes in a strip club in Japan’s historic Nara, gets pulled through Hanoi on a cycle rickshaw, and has a chance encounter on the road from Tunis to Sfax. Tales of a cosmopolitan at home in a strangely familiar world, Self-Portrait Abroad casts the entire globe in a cool but playful light, reminding us that, wherever we go,we take our own eyes with us…

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