A Perfect Hoax

Alma Books Ltd

A Perfect Hoax\nby Italo Svevo\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Italo Svevo\nTitle: A Perfect Hoax\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Classic fiction: general and literary\nPublisher: Alma Books Ltd\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781847497758\nISBN-10: 1847497756\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nTravelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litt\u00E9rateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at his own expense forty years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights of .