Myself and Marco Polo (Paperback, Main)

Returned from twenty years of travelling in China, Marco Polo now languishes in a Genoan prison cell. But his fellow inmate, Rustichello of Pisa, turns out to be an author of popular romances and persuades Polo to dictate his memoirs to him. The scribe listens, ignores, alters and embellishes. The consequent ironies, uncertainties, slippages between fact and fiction are the very stuff of the post-modern writer. On first publication in 1989, it was widely praised. 'The narrative loops are as graceful as any Arabian calligraphy ... Paul Griffiths writes superbly.' Hilary Mantel, Daily Telegraph 'A thoroughly modern piece of fiction which queries the nature of authorship, readership and truth itself ... Marco's doubtful account of himself rapidly falters and falls victim to ambiguity, paradox, self-reference, wilful anachronism and parody.' Robert Irwin, TLS

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	November 2008
Authors:	Paul Griffiths
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	188
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-24735-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	0-571-24735-0
Barcode:	9780571247356

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