Imprint: Arcadia
Format: C Format
ISBN: 978-1-905147-15-1
Price: £ 11.99
Pages: 194 pp
Date: October 2006
‘Fierce originality, vindicating the power of creativity to transform the most sinister acts. His writing is brought vividly home to us by Daniel Hahn’ - The Independent
'Told in short, ironic sentences, The Book of Chameleons is consistently taut and witty' -
Times Literary Supplement
'A story where dreams and reality interweave, and reality itself is interpreted in myriad ways, with truths shifting and slipping against a vividly drawn sense of place, modern-day Luanda' –
Claire Alfee, Metro
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The Book of Chameleons
José-Eduardo Agualusa (About this author)
Daniel Hahn
WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE
Set in contemporary Angola, The Book of Chameleons is populated with characters whose stories never quite settle...
It is some pages in before you realise that the narrator - rather charming, witty as he is - a lizard, living on Felix Ventura's living room wall. Felix trades in an usual commodity - he sells pasts. If you don't like yours, he can come up with an entirely new one for you, full of better memories and with a complete lineage. This is a book about the landscape of memory, its inconsistencies and its randomness.
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