{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"A Void","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/a-void","description":"As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, A Void\u0026#39;s protagonist, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, is unaccountably found missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. All that it brings to light, though, is Vowl\u0026#39;s liking (uncannily similar to his author\u0026#39;s) for parody, wordplay and dazzling fictional constructs, constructs which continually risk spiralling out of control.\n\nAnd, gradually, insidiously, a ghost from Vowl\u0026#39;s past starts to cast its malignant shadow...","author_name":"Georges Perec","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/georges-perec","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/30526554/df2a3020de2a18f7131d5617840ea7333ae7b331.jpeg","thumbnail_width":375,"thumbnail_height":500}