In an old fairy story Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and
breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her he notices an
amulet of amber around her neck, the same trinket he had given his
own lost child, swept away in a torrent some sixteen years earlier.
The theme of a father finding a long lost daughter runs through
this novel which is told by Petter, a precocious child and
fantasist a Norwegian Billy Liar. Petter's magical interior world
contains Metre Man, a midget with a green felt cap and a bamboo
cane; Metre Man runs his life and urges him to do things. As an
adult, Petter's incredible imagination leads him to become a ghost
writer known only as The Spider but he become involves in a
sequence of literary deceits which are brought to a head at the
Bologna Bookfair at the same time as events conspire to bring him
face to face with his own long lost daughter.
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