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ABOUT THE BOOK
Throughout mathematician Philip Masyrk's peripatetic life, there has been only one constant: Irma Arcuri. Their ongoing love affair has endured his two marriages and her countless travels. But now Irma has vanished, leaving Philip her library of 351 books, including five written by Irma herself. Buried somewhere within her luxuriously rebound volumes of Cervantes and Turgenev, Borges and Fowles, lies the secret to her disappearance—and Philip soon realizes that he is trapped within their narratives as well. Who is Irma Arcuri? What is really hidden in the library? And most importantly, whose story is this? Unapologetically sexy and brazenly intellectual, The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri is the impressive debut of a daring new literary talent.
Mystical, sensual and finally haunting . . . demanding a second reading, an intimate decoding, a search for revelations, epiphanies, secrets, a sorcerer’s stone. —Providence Journal
An intellectual thriller for a literate audience. —Los Angeles Times
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
—George Singleton
Foreign rights have been sold to nine other countries, with editions already available in The Netherlands and Brazil.
©2009 David Bajo. All rights reserved. Sketches by Yvette Dede. Website design by Chris Costello.
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What
you will find are beautifully written passages on loss, characters
equally adept at carnal and intellectual seduction and a genuine
exploration of what it means to ‘know’ another
person.
This
is an amazing, beautiful story of Philip Masryk's quixotic
search for the Siren of all Sirens. These characters live within
a puzzle, that's inside a maze, that's inside a labyrinth all
tied up in Möbius strips. It's as if Stranger than Fiction
were co-directed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Gottlob Frege.
Smart, mystical, sexy, and lyrical: I'm convinced that The
351 Books of Irma Arcuri will not leave the reader, ever. |
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