Illusionernes bog : roman
Psychological fiction
Translations
"Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by the great silent comedian Hector Mann, and finds himself entranced. His growing obsession with the mystery of Mann's true life story will take Zimmer on a strange and intense journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions and unexpected love ...
In this rich and emotionally charged work, a man's obsession with a silent film star sends him on a journey into a shadowy world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. A man's obsession with a silent-film star sends him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost silent film by comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer's interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929 and has been presumed dead for sixty years. When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer's mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico-supposedly written by Hector's wife. "Hector has read your book and would like to meet you. Are you interested in paying us a visit?" Is the letter a hoax, or is Hector Mann still alive? Torn between doubt and belief, Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever. This stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. With The Book of Illusions, one of America's most powerful and original writers has written his richest, most emotionally charged work yet.
El libro de las ilusiones
Il libro delle illusioni
Illusionernas bok
Hans Peter Hallwachs liest Das Buch der Illusionen
El Llibre de les il·lusions
Having lost his family in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer journeys around the world to research the life of a presumed-dead silent film actor, and he finds his life changed when his subsequent writings get unexpected attention.
The book of illusions : a novel
Sefer ha-ashlayot/ Paul Auster. Tirgem me-anglit Moše Rôn
A man's obsession with a silent-film star sends him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost silent film by comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer's interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929 and has been presumed dead for sixty years. When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer's mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico-supposedly written by Hector's wife. "Hector has read your book and would like to meet you. Are you interested in paying us a visit?" Is the letter a hoax, or is Hector Mann still alive? Torn between doubt and belief, Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever.
A professor grieving for his dead family becomes absorbed in writing about a missing silent film star, and is shocked to receive a letter from the man's wife once the book is published.
Illuusioiden kirja
The book of illusions [a Gab bag for book discussion groups] : a novel
A man's obsession with a silent-film star sends him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost silent film by comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer's interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929 and has been presumed dead for sixty years. When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer's mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico-supposedly written by Hector's wife. "Hector has read your book and would like to meet you. Are you interested in paying us a visit'" Is the letter a hoax, or is Hector Mann still alive' Torn between doubt and belief, Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever. This stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. With The Book of Illusions, one of America's most powerful and original writers has written his richest, most emotionally charged work yet.
Hwansang ŭi ch'aek : Pol Ost'ŏ changp'yŏn sosŏl
The Book of Illusions
Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, but his films have begun to reappear anonymously in film archives around the world. Zimmer embarks on a journey to study the films, and thus begins a story within a mystery within a fable.
Een Amerikaanse professor, die zijn vrouw en zoontjes heeft verloren bij een vliegtuigongeluk, zoekt troost in het bestuderen van het leven van een vergeten komiek uit de nadagen van de stomme film.
Gab bags
Yanılsamalar kitabı :roman = [The book of illusions]
Electronic books
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Powieść amerykańska
Fiction
Book of illusions
Novela psicologica
Yanılsamalar kitabı
As part of Faber's Secrets and Lies series comes a classic noirish novel of deception and deceit.
Knjiga iluzij
Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945
Księga złudzeń
Novela psicológica
Yanılsamalar kitabı :roman= [The book of illusions]
The book of illusions
Personnes disparues Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familias víctimas de accidentes aéreos Novela.
Absence et présomption de décès Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Aircraft accident victims' families Fiction.
Aircraft accident victims' families-Fiction.
Littérature américaine Traductions françaises.
Motion picture actors and actresses Fiction.
Absence and presumption of death Fiction.
Absence and presumption of death-Fiction.
Powieść amerykańska 21 w. tłumaczenia polskie.
Familles de victimes d'accidents d'avion Romans, nouvelles, etc.