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Title Statement | An unreliable man [largetype] / Jostein Gaarder ; translated from the Norwegian by Nichola Smalley. |
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Author | Gaarder, Jostein, 1952- |
Additional Contributors | Smalley, Nichola |
Publication | Leicester: Charnwood,2019.©2018 |
Edition | First Charnwood edition, [Large print edition]. |
Extent of Item | 279 pages |
ISBN | 1444841831 9781444841831 |
Other Number | 3738029 |
General Notes | Translation of Dukkeføreren. |
Summary | Jakop is a lonely man. Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscuring his identity in a web of improbable lies. As his addiction spirals out of control, he is forced to reconcile his love of language and stories with the ever more urgent need for human connection. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Loneliness--Fiction |
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Fiction | |
Truthfulness and falsehood--Fiction | |
Indo-European languages--Fiction | |
Storytelling--Fiction | |
Divorced people--Fiction | |
Large type books | |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |