num_pages: 326
description: Literature can be contagious; it can also be our only means of salvation, at least in the view of Montano, the “unreliable narrator” of Vila-Matas’s prize-winning novel. His extreme obsession with literature leads him to see the world through the eyes of fiction.
language: English
title: Montano
titlecomplete: Montano
genres: Spanish Literature, Spain, 21st Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Roman, Latin American, Fiction, Books About Books
ratings_count: 1216
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Warwick Prize for Writing
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Premio Herralde de Novela, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: BTBA Best Translated Book Award
category: Fiction shortlist, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana
publisher: Harvill Secker