My Life as a Fake European History After a hellish battle against

After a hellish battle against ravenous sea monsters

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and what started out as a joke has suddenly turned serious

no matter the outcome

But Cedar’s been hiding a secret of her own

My Life as a Fake European History After a hellish battle againstAn Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating, 'continuously startling' (John Updike) contemplation of the art world. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. In this dubious work Sarah recognises a real genius. But