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Life: A Users Manuel - Georges PerecIn this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of characters in a series of every more unlikely tales, which

'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards

a mysterious stranger

Hij loopt er onverzorgd bij

vrij willen zijn en met anderen willen verkeren

Gigi surprises all with her approach to love

and the humans they serve stop reproducing

een wereld vol angst

in het ‘hete’ zuiden van Noorwegen

en absoluut schitterend is Het goede kwaad

To honour the Ruler's birthday

Dokter van de beau monde in Parijs

Gaandeweg wordt de lezer geconfronteerd met de duistere geschiedenis van Region en de onderlinge relaties tussen de personages die er wonen