Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappi
The autograph man: a novel
β Scribed by Zadie Smith
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 360 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1299074561
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β¦ Synopsis
Alex-Li Tandem is a 27-year-old, half-Jewish, half-Chinese man in search of himself. In his own words, he has "no love, no transportation, no ambitions, no faith," and not much else. An autograph peddler, he hunts down the signatures people want and sells them.
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