TY - BOOK AU - Gaarder,Jostein AU - Smalley,Nichola TI - An unreliable man SN - 9781474605823 AV - PT8951.17.A17 D8513 2018 U1 - 839.82374 23/eng/20230118 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson KW - Divorced men KW - Fiction KW - Loneliness KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Truthfulness and falsehood KW - Indo-European languages KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Storytelling KW - fast KW - Divorced people KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N1 - Translated from the Norwegian; Translation of Dukkeføreren. Oslo : Aschehoug, 2016 N2 - "Jakop is a lonely man. Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscuring his identity in a web of improbable lies. As his addiction spirals out of control, he is forced to reconcile his love of language and stories with the ever more urgent need for human connection."--Provided by publisher ER -