num_pages: 288
description: Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. But in this dubious manuscript Sarah recognizes a work of real genius. But whose genius? As Sarah tries to secure the manuscript, Chubb draws her into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping, and exile–a story that couldn’t be true unless its teller were mad. My Life as a Fake is Carey at his most audacious and entertaining.
language: English
title: My Life as a Fake
titlecomplete: My Life as a Fake
genres: Australia, Mystery, Asia, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Fiction
ratings_count: 3452
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage