First Person

Resumen del libro

What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effectKif Kehlmann, a young penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of 700 million, Heidl offers Kehlmann the job of ghost-writing his memoir. He has six weeks to write the book, for which he'll be paid 10,000.

But as the writing gets under way, Kehlmann begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. As the deadline draws closer, he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghost writing a memoir, or if Heidl is rewriting him - his life, his future. Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Siegfried Heidl -- and who is Kif Kehlmann?As time runs out, one question looms above all others: what is the truth?By turns compelling, comic, and chilling, this is a haunting journey into the heart of our age.

Biografía del autor

p b Richard Flanagan /b (Tasmania, 1961) es un escritor y guionista australiano. Es autor de varias novelas que se han publicado en cuarenta y dos países con un enorme reconocimiento de la crítica. Entre ellas figuran i Muerte de un guía /i (1994); i El libro de los peces de William Gould /i (2001), ganadora del premio Commonwealth; i El camino estrecho al norte profundo /i (2013), ganadora del premio Booker, y i El mar vivo de los sueños despiertos /i (2020). i La pregunta 7 /i (2023; Libros del Asteroide, 2025), considerada su mejor obra hasta la fecha, ha obtenido el premio Baillie Gifford, uno de los más prestigiosos premios de no ficción del mundo anglosajón, y ha sido finalista del premio Femina Étranger y seleccionado para el premio Médicis.<br>