The book of illusions
Ratings14
Average rating3.4
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Ratings14
Average rating3.4
Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, but his films have begun to reappear anonymously in film archives around the world. Zimmer embarks on a journey to study the films, and thus begins a story within a mystery within a fable.
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David Zimmer loses his wife
and sons in a plane crash and
his life begins to spin out
of control. Then one night
he watches a silent screen
comedian and, for the first time
in months, he laughs. His life
becomes his search for information
about the work of this comedian,
an obscure and mysterious man,
Hector Mann.
The Book of Illusions spins and
whirls, spiraling at times into
its own shadows. Recommended.
