The Book of Chameleons av Jose Eduardo Agualusa

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<p><b><font>''</b><b>Ingenious, consistently taut and witty'' <i>TLS</i></b><br><br><b>''Humorous and quizzical, with a light touch on weighty themes, the narrative darts about with lizard-like colour and velocity'' <i>Independent</i></b><br><b><br>''Strange, elliptical, charming'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>''A poetic, beguiling meditation on truth and storytelling . . . from the dreamscapes of magical realism to a gripping political thriller and even a murder mystery'' <i>New Internationalist</i></b><b></font></b><br><br>F¿x Ventura trades in memories, a slippery character selling new pasts to people whose bright futures lack only a good lineage, and wiping clean the slate of their identity.<br><br>In a narrative that darts between past and present Angola, a bookish albino man, a beautiful woman, a mysterious foreigner and a witty talking lizard come together to discover their real origins. For theirs is a world where the truth seems to shift from moment to moment and wh