All right, The Siege of Lisbon. Raise your hand if you've heard of this one before! Yeah, I didn't think so. Anyway, it's actually mildly interesting, albeit fairly cerebral. It's definitely a concept book. Basically, it is interested in the nature of truth and the dialectical relationship between truth and fiction.
The novel more or less sets out to problematize the idea of objective truth, particularly in relation to history. It then uses this idea to explore both a particular historical moment and a specific relationship as a way to more broadly mediate on truth, meaning, and connection between disparate people.
Or something like that. You could do many academic papers on this one, I guess.
All of my titles here are references to something. If you get this one, you are good.
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