Shi yi zhen suo
By: Zhanmusi Shigudemo zhu ; Zhang Chenghua yi = The amnesia clinic / by James Scudamore
Contributors: Zhang, Chenghua
Edition: Chu ban
Series: Sheng ming shu -- 19; Sheng ming shu -- 19.
Publisher: Ri yue wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Taibei Shi
Language: chi
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9789866542336
Subjects: Best friends; Teenage boys; Storytelling; Fiction
Work titles: Amnesia clinic
Description: Anti and Fabian are best friends and classmates at the Quito International School. Anti (short for Anthony) is the quiet, asthmatic English kid, and Fabian is the charismatic and flamboyant local. Anti lives in the dull ex-pat world inhabited by his parents, while Fabian lives with his cool, eccentric Uncle Suarez. Suarez, a storyteller par excellence, infects the boys with his passion for outlandish tales. Before long, the relationship between these two fifteen-year-olds becomes one conducted entirely through the medium of storytelling, and they lose sight of the boundaries between fact and fiction. With confused emotions and a tenuous grip on reality, the boys embark on a quixotic voyage across Ecuador in search of an "Amnesia Clinic" that may or may not exist. A complex and beautifully crafted piece of storytelling about storytelling itself, The Amnesia Clinic explores how truth can be so very much fanciful that fact, and how the collision between fantasy and reality can lead to harmful delusions.
Notes: Translation of: The amnesia clinic.

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