Natural History - A Novel (Paperback)

Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom - with camouflage and subterfuge - and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Seven years later, after the death of the designer, the curator recovers the archive of their never-completed project. During a long night of insomnia, he finds within the archive a series of clues to the true story of the designer's family, a mind-bending puzzle that winds from Haifa, Israel, to bohemian 1970s New York to the Latin American jungle. On the way, he discovers a cast of characters whose own fixations interrogate the unstable frontiers between art, science, politics, and religion: an aging photographer, living nearly alone in an abandoned mining town where subterranean fires rage without end, who creates models of ruined cities; a former model turned conceptual artist - and a defendant in a trial over the very nature and purpose of art; a young indigenous boy who has received a vision of the end of the world. Reality is a curtain, as the curator realises, and to draw it back is to reveal the theatre of obsession.

General

Imprint:	Picador USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2021
Authors:	Carlos Fonseca
Dimensions:	221 x 144 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-250-79854-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-250-79854-X
Barcode:	9781250798541

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