num_pages: 112
description: Bluma Lennon, distinguished professor of Latin American literature at Cambridge, is hit by a car while crossing the street, immersed in a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems. Several months after her untimely demise, a package arrives for her from Argentina-a copy of a Conrad novel, encrusted in cement and inscribed with a mysterious dedication. Bluma's successor in the department (and a former lover) travels to Buenos Aires to track down the sender, one Carlos Brauer, who turns out to have disappeared.The last thing known is that he moved to a remote stretch of the Uruguayan coastline and built himself a house out of his enormous and valuable library. How he got there, and why, is the subject of this seductive novel-part mystery, part social comedy, and part examination of all the many forms of bibliomania.Charmingly illustrated by Peter Sís, The House of Paper is a tribute to the strange and passionate relationship between people and their books.
language: English
title: The House Of Paper
titlecomplete: The House Of Paper
characters: Bluma Lennon, Carlos Brauer
genres: Literature, Books About Books, Novels, Latin American Literature, Roman, Magical Realism, Fiction, Short Stories, Novella, Contemporary
ratings_count: 7923
awards: name: Lolita Rubial, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser
category: Sonderpreis
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt