Ergebnis für "My Body Is Distant A Memoir" in Thriller

It was a 'team-building' weekend for lawyers, advertising execs, businessmen - oh, and a journalist. Amid the paintballing and flowing Shiraz, the organisers pulled some surprises - stalkers in the forest, power cuts in the night, disappearing staff, disappearing guests. When the only access for...

An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating contemplation of the art world. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. In this dubious work Sarah recognises a real genius. But whose genius? She is drawn into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping and exile, which couldn't be true unless its teller were mad. Or perhaps haunted.