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The book of chameleons three percent university of rochester. A small independent bookstore with a funky vibe, open every day from around 1. He lives on felix venturas livingroom wall, felix, the lizards friend and hero of the story, is a man who sells pasts if you dont like yours, he can come up with an new one for you, a new past full of better memories, with a complete lineage, photos and all. Illustrated in different, colourful styles to delight both young and old. A book as brisk as a thriller and as hot and alarming as the most powerful kind of dream. The book of chameleons by jose eduardo agualusa popmatters. A novel paperback june 17, 2008 by jose eduardo agualusa author. Its a novel of ideas, a novel of challenges, a novel where all is not quite as it might seem, where everyone is a chameleon. David grann, a staff writer at the new yorker since 2003, is the author of, most recently, the white darkness, and of killers of the flower moon. The narrator of this novel is a rather charming lizard. Jose eduardo agualusas the book of chameleons has an unusual narrator, says nicholas lezard. Felix ventura, an albino, is an antique book dealer and a seller of pasts, or genealogist as he tells strangers, who.

Agualusa, a white african of portuguese descent, is said to write in an africanized portuguese, but if so, this, too, has been lost in translation. The book of chameleons book by jose eduardo agualusa, daniel. Coetzee with gabriel garcia marquez and youve got jose eduardo agualusa, portugals next candidate for the nobel prize. Early readers chameleons fullcolour chapter books for children who are learning to read by themselves, chameleons provide an ideal bridge between picture books and early readers.

This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies follows felix ventura as he trades in a curious commodityhe sells people different. Agualusas novel though set entirely in angola feels very european in tone and content. The book of chameleons by jose eduardo agualusa goodreads. The book of chameleons by jose eduardo agualusa, paperback. Chameleon books books that are more than just a story a reading, learning and creative adventure. The last game we played at this years will shortzs wonderful world of words is the chameleon, created by an english company that has the best name in the biz. The book of chameleons won the independent foreign fiction prize in 2007. Books that are more than just a story a reading, learning and creative adventure. The book of chameleons by jose eduardo agualusa felix ventura trades in an unusual commodity.