Whos Who When Everyone is Someone Else

A hilariously charming novel about a heartbroken man trying to redeem himself by championing forgotten booksFleeing heartbreak, an unnamed author goes to an unnamed city to give a series of lectures at an unnamed university about forgotten books ... only to find himself involved in a mystery when the professor who invited him is no where to be found, and no one seems quite sure why hes there....So begins this Wes Andersonlike novel hilariously spoofing modernist literature even as it tells a stirring and eerily suspenseful story about someone desperate to prove the redeeming power of reading and writing books.And as the narrator gives his lectures, attends vague functions where no one speaks English, never quite meets his host professor and wonders the city looking for the grave of his literary hero, the reader begins to suspect this mans relentless faith in literature may be the only thing getting him through the mystery enveloping him.