Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey's My Life as
a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship
between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972,
Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a
mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised
literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit.
But in this dubious manuscript Sarah recognizes a work of real genius.
But whose genius? As Sarah tries to secure the manuscript, Chubb draws
her into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping, and exile-a
story that couldn't be true unless its teller were mad. My Life as a
Fake is Carey at his most audacious and entertaining.