The House Of Paper

About this book

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 Dickinsons 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. Blumas 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 Ss The House of Paper is a tribute to the strange and passionate relationship between people and their books.