Description Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winner of the John Gardner Award for Fiction "Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you." -- Wall Street Journal "A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy reCall the work of Bola o and Borges." -- New York Times Book Review.
Description Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winner of the John Gardner Award for Fiction "Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you." -- Wall Street Journal "A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy reCall the work of Bola o and Borges." -- New York Times Book Review
