From the Shadows, Thomas Bunstead
From the Shadows, Thomas Bunstead
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From the Shadows

Author: Thomas Bunstead

Narrator: Thom Rivera

Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/09/2019

Categories: Fiction, Absurdist


Synopsis

Laid off from his job, Damin Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antique market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the seemingly idyllic home of a husband, a wife, and their internet-addicted teenage daughter. There, he sneaks from the shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming deeply and disastrously involved with his unknowing host family. Every thread of the plot is ingeniously tied together, creating a potent admixture of parable, love story, and thriller. Mills masterfully reveals the every day as innately surreal as he renders the unbelievable tangible and the trivial fantasticaland full of dark humor.

Author Bio

Thomas Bunstead is a writer and translator of leading Spanish-language writers, including Eduardo Halfon, Agustín Fernández Mallo, Juan José Millás, and Juan Villoro. His co-translation of Enrique Vila-Matas’s A Brief History of Portable Literature was a semifinalist for the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize. He also writes for The Times Literary Supplement and Paris Review Daily and is an editor of the literary translation journal In Other Words. He lives in Lewes, England.

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