My Life as a Fake European History electrifying

electrifying

no matter the outcome

bizarre view of society

Nobody knows exactly how many snake species live in the biodiversity hotspots of Western and Central Africa

After a hellish battle against ravenous sea monsters

My Life as a Fake European History electrifyingAn Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating, 'continuously startling' (John Updike) contemplation of the art world. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. In this dubious work Sarah recognises a real genius. But