The Book of Chameleons

Posted on 17 July 2017 by José Eduardo Agualusa

The narrator of this novel is a rather charming lizard He lives on Felix Ventura s living room wall, Felix, the lizard s friend and hero of the story, is a man who sells pasts if you don t 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. Best Download [ The Book of Chameleons ] by [ José Eduardo Agualusa ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Ovaj armantni pisac zaslu uje svu va u pa nju Pretpro le godine je bio gost na sajmu objavljeno je jo nekoliko njegovih knjiga na srpskomYes, it really is narrated by a gecko, and a gecko who is a reincarnation of Jorge Luis Borges at that A gecko that laughs And dreams.Maria Helena, my Brazilian friend who recommended it to me, informs me that a gecko in Portuguese is osga Which makes me think of a drum playing, glass shattering inmate of a mental hospital Sorry to ask but ...Very strange novella, and I don t know why it won the awards and plaudits that it did Am I the boy declaring the emperor has no clothes, or have I missed the point Either way, I wouldn t recommend spending your own money on it This should probably be either 1 or 4 , but as I don t know which, I m compromising on 2.THEMESIt is about truth and lies, dreams and reality, memory, predestination, fitting in, and the difference between having a dream and making one, but it ssuperficial than Very strange novella, and I don t know why it won the awards and plaudits that it did Am I the boy declaring the emperor has no clothes, or have I missed the point Either way, I wouldn t recommend spending your own money on it This should probably be either 1 or 4 , but as I don t know which, I m compromising on 2.THEMESIt is about truth and lies, dreams and reality, memory, predestination, fitting in, and the difference between having a dream and making one, but it ssuperficial than that makes it sound.PLOTIt s set in Angola though there s little sense of Africa in it , and is about, Felix,...I read arecent novel by this author earlier this year, A General Theory of Oblivion Both novels are set after the 1975 revolution in Angola, where the Portuguese felt a shift in power and empire A General Theory of Oblivion focuses on a woman who walls herself up in her apartment for decades and experiences the conflict through what she hears and in how her food stores disappear Chameleons tells the story of Felix Ventura, a man who helps people construct new backstories through fake li I read arecent novel by this author earlier this year, A General Theory of Oblivion Both novels are set after the 1975 revolution in Angola, where the Portuguese felt a shift in power and empire A General Theory of Oblivion focuses on a woman who walls herself up in her apartment for decades and experiences the conflict through what she hears and in how her food stores disappear Chameleons tells the story of Felix Ventura, a man who helps people construct new backstories through fake lineages The story is told by a former librarian who is reincarnated as a gecko Read that sentence again The chapters are short They alternate between characters coming in for a new skin and dreams the gecko is having Felix starts to share dreams with the gec...I think what I do is really an advanced kind of literature, he told me conspiratorially I create plots, I invent characters, but rather than keeping them trapped in a book I give them life, launching them out into reality Jos Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of ChameleonsRecently I ve been reading a lot of books written by African writers and I am impressed by the wide range of subject matter and also the different writing styles I ve encountered I took a break from reading African lit a I think what I do is really an advanced kind of literature, he told me conspiratorially I create plots, I invent characters, but rather than keeping them trapped in a book I give them life, launching them out into reality Jos Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of ChameleonsRecently I ve been reading a lot of books written by African writers and I am impressed by the wide range of subject matter and also the different writing styles I ve encountered I took a break from reading African lit a few years ago because I became so tired of the doom and gloom coming from a continent I know has so muchto offer It s always nice when a book by an African author, or a book set in Africa, dwells on different subject matter.This was an interesting book written by an Angolan author, with a gecko as a narrator, a gecko who had been a man in a previous life The very eloquent gecko lives in the house of Felix Ventura, an albino man who invents people s pasts for them, to the point where they become very be...Esta novela, relativamente breve, es la tercera que leo del angole o Agualusa y, hasta ahora, la que m s me ha gustado Quiz s en 2010, cuando le las dos anteriores, todav a no ten a suficiente cultura lus fona como para sacarles toda su miga Esta o das Chuvas, basada en la agitada historia reciente de Angola, no me dijo nada Tal vez me faltaran referentes locales Y Na o Crioula me gust un poco m s, pero tambi n me faltaban referentes como la figura del escritor E a de Queir s, a quien Ag Esta novela, relativamente breve, es la tercera que leo del angole o Agualusa y, hasta ahora, la que m s me ha gustado Quiz s en 2010, cuando le las dos anteriores, todav a no ten a suficiente cultura lus fona como para sacarles toda su miga Esta o das Chuvas, basada en la agitada historia reciente de Angola, no me dijo nada Tal vez me faltaran referentes locales Y Na o Crioula me gust un poco m s, pero tambi n me faltaban referentes como la figura del escritor E a de Queir s, a quien Agualusa incluy entre los protagonistas y autor que empec a leer un a o despu s O Vend...Brief and rather quirky novel set in Angola The narrator is a gecko living in the house of Felix Ventura The gecko is articulate and charming he appears to have been a man in a previous life and he dreams Felix likes the lizard and talks to him Felix is an albino who creates memories and a past for people Come to Felix and he will provide documentation and photographs of grandparents and illustrious ancestors One client in particular really believes in the past he has been given and becom Brief and rather quirky novel set in Angola The narrator is a gecko living in the house of...Po tujem i podr avam svakovrsne izdava ke inicijative, ma koliko egzoti ne bile, ak i kad me teme ni malo ne zanimaju Problem, kao i ina e, nastaje u podrazumevaju em detaljima, jer svako podrazumeva u svojoj glavi i za svoj gro Ja sam podrazumevala sude i i po imenu edicije Dereta vam predstavlja da taj, uglavnom korektan izdava eli da mi u to boljem svetlu predstavi perspektivnog afri kog pisca, pa jo i nagra ivanog koje gde Izdava je, ispostavi e se, pod tim predstavljanjem podr Po tujem i podr avam svakovrsne izdava ...La orele de catehez , un preot b tr n, cu glas ters i privire obosit , a ncercat, f r convingere, s mi explice n ce consta Ve nicia Eu credeam c este un alt nume dat vacan ei mari Preotul mi vorbea despre ngeri, iar eu vedeam g inu e De altfel, p n n ziua de ast zi, g sesc c g inile sunt tot ce poate fi mai asem n tor cu ngerii El ne vorbea despre Fericiri, iar eu vedeam g inile cotcod cind n soare, scormonind n r n , rostogolindu i ochii lor mici i sticlo i ntr un pur e La orele de catehez , un preot b tr n, cu glas ters i privire obosit , a ncercat, f r convingere, s mi explice n ce consta Ve nicia Eu credeam c este un alt nume dat vacan ...

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17 July 2017

José Eduardo Agualusa