{"product_id":"dead-souls-a-novel-isbn-9781646221332","title":"Dead Souls: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Roberto Bolaño's \u003ci\u003eSavage Detectives\u003c\/i\u003e and Muriel Spark's \u003ci\u003eLoitering with Intent\u003c\/i\u003e, this \"sublime\" and \"delightfully unhinged\" metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows one poet's spectacular fall from grace to ask a vital question: Is everyone a plagiarist? (Nicolette Polek, author of \u003ci\u003eImaginary Museums\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA scandal has shaken the literary world. As the unnamed narrator of \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e discovers at a cultural festival in central London, the offender is Solomon Wiese, a poet accused of plagiarism. Later that same evening, at a bar near Waterloo Bridge, our narrator encounters the poet in person, and listens to the story of Wiese's rise and fall, a story that takes the entire night—and the remainder of the novel—to tell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWiese reveals his unconventional views on poetry, childhood encounters with \"nothingness,\" a conspiracy involving the manipulation of documents in the public domain, an identity crisis, a retreat to the country, a meeting with an ex-serviceman with an unexpected offer, the death of an old poet, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, an entanglement with a secretive poetry cult, and plans for a triumphant return to the capital, through the theft of poems, illegal war profits, and faked social media accounts—plans in which our narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e is a metaphysical mystery brilliantly encased in a picaresque romp, a novel that asks a vital question for anyone who makes or engages with art: Is everyone a plagiarist?","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300746744037,"sku":"NP9781646221332","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781646221332.jpg?v=1767724836","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dead-souls-a-novel-isbn-9781646221332","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}