The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
Translator: Hee-gi Yoon
Publisher: Sigongsa
414 pages | 211*141mm
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About This Book
An extraordinarily haunting love story told in the voice of a man who
appears to age backwards.
We are each the love of someone's life. So begins The Confessions of Max
Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his
birth, Max's father declares him a "nisse," a creature of Danish myth,
as his baby son has the external physical appearance of an old, dying
creature. Max grows older like any child, but his physical age appears
to go backward--on the outside a very old man, but inside still a
fearful child. The story is told in three acts. First, young Max falls
in love with a neighborhood girl, Alice, who ages as normally as any of
us. Max, of course, does not; as a young man, he has an older man's
body. But his curse is also his blessing: as he gets older, his body
grows younger, so each successive time he finds his Alice, she does not
recognize him. She takes him for a stranger, and Max is given another
chance at love. Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at
the turn of the twentieth century, Max's life and confessions question
the very nature of time, of appearance and reality, and of love itself.
A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, The Confessions of Max
Tivoli reveals the world through the eyes of a "monster," a being who
confounds the very certainties by which we live and in doing so embodies
in extremis what it means to be human.
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