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Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Lu-s Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kabbala, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee's 'Eternal Orang-utan', which would end up by writing all the known books in the cosmos. Verissimo's small masterpiece is at once a witty literary tour de force and a brilliant mystery novel in its own right.
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Luis Fernando Verissimo is one of Brazil's most popular writers thanks to his satirical columns in the national weekly Veja. He is also a celebrated novelist and cartoonist, and he plays the saxophone in a jazz band. His novel The Club of Angels was published by Harvill.
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"An elegantly constructed caper" * Daily Telegraph * "Verrisimo's pleasure in his own absurd intertextual universe is infectious" * Times Literary Supplement * "A true literary mystery in its own right, as well as a homage to Borges" * Financial Times *
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- PublisherHarvill Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1843430975
- ISBN 13 9781843430971
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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