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From the Shadows (Paperback)
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From the Shadows (Paperback)
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Loot Price R294
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You Save R64 (18%)
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Publishers Weekly "Top 10 Book of the Year" selection "Begins as
entertaining slapstick, subtly metamorphoses into fable. . . . As
[the narrator's] vivid imaginary world fuses with reality this
deceptively ethereal novel advances toward a dark and startling
finale." --Wall Street Journal Laid off from his job, Damian Lobo
obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on
TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market,
he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the
seemingly idyllic home of a husband, wife, and their
internet-addicted teenage daughter. There, he sneaks from the
shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming deeply and
disastrously involved with his unknowing host family. Every thread
of the plot is ingeniously tied together, creating a potent
admixture of parable, love story, and thriller. Millas masterfully
reveals the everyday as innately surreal as he renders the
unbelievable tangible and the trivial fantastical, and full of dark
humor. Juan Jose Millas is the recipient of Spain's most
prestigious literary prizes: the Premio Nadal, Premio Planeta, and
Premio Nacional de Narrativa. A regular contributor to El Pais,
Millas has also won many awards for his journalism. He is the
author of several short story collections and works of nonfiction
as well as over a dozen novels, including From the Shadows, the
first of his novels to be published in North America. He lives in
Madrid.
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