Poor man's wealth
By: Rod Usher
Publisher: 4th Estate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sydney, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780732294519
Subjects: Australian fiction; City and town life; Hoaxes; Fiction
Description: Part fable, part love story, part comi-tragedy, Poor Man's Wealth is narrated, somewhat unreliably, by El Gordo--the Fat One. He is the mayor of Higot, a dusty village in an unnamed Spanish-speaking country under military rule.