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Mac and His Problem

Mac and His Problem

by Enrique Vila-Matas
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/04/2019
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A funny, erudite novel from one of the great European storytellers, with the process of writing and creation playfully at its heart.

Mac, over sixty and recently unemployed, lives on his wife’s earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary.

Mac’s wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depression - but Mac persists, and is determined that this diary will not turn into a novel.

However, one day, he has a chance encounter with a near neighbour, a highly successful author who once wrote a collection of enigmatic, wilfully obscure stories...

ISBN:
9780143788454
9780143788454
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-04-2019
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
233x154x17mm
Weight:
0.3kg

"Vila-Matas's wildly original novels are all investigations of whether or not originality in fiction is still possible; every nook and cranny of literary history is explored and interrogated, the margin of every great novel frantically scribbled in."
Morten Høi Jensen, Dublin Review of Book

Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas is widely considered to be one of Spain's most important contemporary novelists.

His work has been translated into 30 languages and has won numerous international literary prizes, including the Herralde Prize, the Prix Médicis étranger and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos.

Vila-Matas' books have been longlisted (Montano) and shortlisted (Dublinesque) for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Never Any End to Paris was a finalist for the US Best Translated Book Award.

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