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Mac and His Problem

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Enrique Vila-Matas`s new novel is perhaps his greatest: `playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists` Colm ToibinMac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will ever read. At over sixty, and recently unemployed, Mac is a beginner – delighted by themes of repetition and falsification, and humbly armed with an encyclopaedic knowledge of literature. Mac`s wife, Carmen, thinks he is wasting his time. But Mac persists, diligently recording his daily walks through the neighbourhood. It is the hottest summer Barcelona has seen in over a hundred years. Soon Mac begins to notice that life is exhibiting strange literary overtones. As he sizzles in the heatwave, he becomes ever more immersed in literature – a literature haunted by death but alive with the sheer pleasure of writing.Intricate, erudite and practically fizzing on the page, Mac and His Problem is a masterpiece of metafiction and a testament to the power and playfulness of great literature.`So deeply comical on the one hand, and so deeply poignant on the other, that you just have to give yourself up to it because you`re in the hands of a master` Paul Auster`[Vila-Matas] chooses humour in a way that allows him to have big ideas while relentlessly making fun of them` Sunday Telegraph`One of the most original and celebrated writers in the Spanish language` Adam Thirlwell, Paris Review

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