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In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator -- a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself -- travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossip in Tokyo and has a battle of nerves in a butcher shop in Berlin; he wins a boules tournament in Cap Corse, takes in a strip club in Japan's historic Nara, gets pulled through Hanoi on a cycle rickshaw, and has a chance encounter on the road from Tunis to Sfax. Tales of a cosmopolitan at home in a strangely familiar world, Self-Portrait Abroad casts the entire globe in a cool but playful light, reminding us that, wherever we go,we take our own eyes with us...

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: Self-Portrait Abroad
• Author: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84
• EAN: 9781564785862
• ISBN: 1564785866
• ID: 04230984
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Weight: 104 g
• Dimensions: 127 × 179 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. June 2010

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