The Book of Chameleons
ABOUT
THE BOOK
It is some pages in to The Book of Chameleons before you realise that the narrator – rather charming, witty as he is – a lizard, living on Felix Ventura’s living room wall. Felix trades in an usual commodity – he sells pasts. If you don’t like yours, he can come up with an entirely new one for you, full of better memories and with a complete lineage.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Daniel
Hahn
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator from Portuguese, Spanish, and French. Among other honors, he is the recipient of the Ottaway Award and his work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and received the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and Dublin Literary Award. He lives in Lewes, England.
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator from Portuguese, Spanish, and French. Among other honors, he is the recipient of the Ottaway Award and his work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and received the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and Dublin Literary Award. He lives in Lewes, England.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Through creative original writing using short and witty sentences, the narrator tells us a story of a man who sells pasts to emergent Angolan middle classes, a satire that could be extended to a modern society.