The best book in the world
By: Peter Stjernström
Publisher: Hesperus Nova; Hesperus Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781843915164; 9781780942247
Subjects: Authors; Fiction
Description: Titus Jensen makes ends meet by giving readings from obscure book to spaced-out festival crowds. An author of his quality needs a new idea, but he's washed up and doesn't get taken seriously by anyone. Eddie X is a radical poet and regular on the festival circuit. Good-looking and popular, he can't help thinking there has to be more to life for a man like him. One night, the unlikely pair get horribly drunk and hatch a plan. There's only one thing for a budding writer to do to get worldwide recognition: write the best book in the world - a book so amazing that it will end up on all the bestseller lists in every category imaginable. But as the haze clears they both realise they are not willing to share the limelight. Who will win the race to write the best book in the world, and to what unimaginable lengths will they go to get there first?
Notes: Translated from the Swedish.