Aantekeningen over het verplaatsen van obelisken

Tomas, the brilliant, bookish dandy the narrator befriended as a student, has died young of a burst artery. The narrator, who mostly listened while Tomas talked, takes his late friend's books to Alexandria during a week-long research trip, intending to shelve them in the city's renowned library and to look for the vanished grave of Alexander the Great, a figure he has wanted to write about for years. Tomas seems to haunt the streets there. Other threads follow the narrator's move to St. Louis with his wife and their cat, and digressions on funeral customs, pyramids and obelisks shipped abroad.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

252 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Egypt, United States, Belgium

First published

2017 by De Bezige Bij

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9789023448600 (original)

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