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Description edit
This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies follows Felix Ventura as he trades in a curious commodity—he sells people different pasts. He can create entirely new pasts full of better memories and complete with new lineage or augment existing pasts as needed.... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Felix Ventura: Main Character, successful author of fake personal histories. People are keen to hire him to re-write their past.
- Eulalio (a gecko): The storyteller. Narrating Felix Ventura's adventures.
- Jose Buchmann: Felix Ventura's main customer whose made-up history soon changes the author's reality.
- Félix Ventura: Add a description of this character.
- Esperança
- José Buchmann
- Ângela Lúcia
- Edmundo Barata dos Reis
- Eulálio
- Eva Miller
- Pedro Gouveia
- Mateus Buchmann
Setting & Locations edit
- Luanda
- Lisbon
- New York
- Cape Town
- Chibia
- Angola
- Berlin
- Africa
- Brazil
- Rio De Janeiro
- Portugal
- Salvador Correia
First Sentence edit
I was born in this house, and grew up here.
Authors & Contributors edit
- José Eduardo Agualusa (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Portuguese
Publisher: Publicações Dom Quixote
Country: Lisboa, Portugal
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 972-20-2667-4
Page Count: 184
Publisher: Publicações Dom Quixote
Country: Lisboa, Portugal
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 972-20-2667-4
Page Count: 184
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Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 869.342
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