A guide for the perplexed : a novel / Jonathan Levi.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Overlook Duckworth, 2017Copyright date: ©1992Edition: New editionDescription: 339 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781468314540; 9780715651735Subject(s): Travelers -- Fiction | Spain -- FictionGenre/Form: Epistolary fiction. DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: In a fable of fantastical lushness, Levi weaves together the stories of two strangers and their mysterious travel agent to present an extraordinarily crafted revisionist history of the discovery of America, combining the erudition of Umberto Eco with the ingenious storytelling of A Thousand and One Nights. Holland and Hanni have come to Spain for two very different reasons. They have nothing in common except they share the same travel agent, Ben. Stranded overnight by an airport strike, Hanni and Holland discover that they are connected by a strange web of history and happenstance a common labyrinth that stretches back to World War II, the Spanish Inquisition, and beyond.
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First published: 1992.
In a fable of fantastical lushness, Levi weaves together the stories of two strangers and their mysterious travel agent to present an extraordinarily crafted revisionist history of the discovery of America, combining the erudition of Umberto Eco with the ingenious storytelling of A Thousand and One Nights. Holland and Hanni have come to Spain for two very different reasons. They have nothing in common except they share the same travel agent, Ben. Stranded overnight by an airport strike, Hanni and Holland discover that they are connected by a strange web of history and happenstance a common labyrinth that stretches back to World War II, the Spanish Inquisition, and beyond.
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