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Asterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never built an actual building, and a pedant in the midst of a spiritual crisis. After the structure of his own life falls apart, he runs away to try to rebuild it into something new.
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Contemporary, contemplative, spare and prestige.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David Mazzucchelli
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Sinsentido, Pantheon Books, CASTERMAN
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307377326
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