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It is quite some pages into The Man Who Sold Pasts before you realise the narrator - rather charming, witty as he is - is a lizard. A very articulate, and very friendly lizard, and - like all Agualusa's narrators - unusually perceptive. But a lizard nonetheless. This narrator lives on Felix Ventura's living-room wall; Felix, the lizard's friend and hero of our story, is a man who sells pasts - if you don't like yours, he can come up with an entirely new one for you, a new past - full of better memories, with a complete lineage (as distinguished as you like), photos and all. This is a book about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies and randomness, about how we can remember things that never happened with extraordinary vividness, and forget things that did.
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