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Enrique Vila-Matasâ€™s new novel is perhaps his greatest â€œplayful and funny and among the best Spanish novelistsâ€ (Colm TÃ³ibÃn)

Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wifeâ€™s earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Macâ€™s wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depressionâ€•but Mac persists, and is determined that this diary will not turn into a novel. However, one day, he has a chance encounter with a near neighbor, a highly successful author who once wrote a collection of enigmatic, willfully obscure stories. Mac decides that, while he will not write his own stories, he will read, revise, and improve his neighborâ€™s, which are mostly narrated by a ventriloquist who has lost the ability to speak in different voices. As Mac embarks on this task, he finds that the stories have a strange way of imitating life. Or is life imitating the stories? As the novel progresses, Mac becomes stranger and more adrift from reality, and both he and we become ever more immersed in literature a literature haunted by death, but alive with the sheer pleasure of writing.