Imitation Twins: a Replica of a Novel
About This Novel
The novel is set in the vast desert. Near an unknown city, there is an institute where people with very different identities - sculptors, financiers, miniaturists, translators, etc. - Come here, put on uniform uniforms, and work on their own projects of great significance. The protagonist Percy Frobisher will also complete his project here. However, when he was surrounded by a simulated environment on the institute's giant dome, his mind went blank. The project has not been launched yet. He also accidentally got pen ink on the only uniform - a major blunder. Percy heard that there was a place in the city called the "Twin Shop", where people could give anything they wanted to copy to the mysterious shopkeeper and say "Imitation Twin" and they would get a better copy than the original... Readers will follow the protagonist's footsteps and enter a world of infinite possibilities. A metafictional work by the world-renowned book binding designer Peter Mendelsand, this book is his literary masterpiece and has been jointly recommended by the New York Times, Bibliographic Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and other media. It has a sense of the future, science fiction, suspense, absurdity and mystery. This book constructs a research institute that seems to be isolated from the world in a hot desert. The whole novel seems to be covered by a huge veil, and the confusing suspense will firmly hold the reader's thoughts. What kind of world is this? What is the true identity of the protagonist Percy? Multiple puzzles will draw readers into the book to find answers. The reality you see may be fiction, and the fiction you think may be derived from reality. It raises questions worth thinking about for every contemporary person: Where is the boundary between real and virtual, copying and creation? Looking back at our lives, science and technology are developing rapidly, and the boundaries between real and virtual are becoming more and more blurred... A tribute to the literary classic "The Magic Mountain". This book is based on Thomas Mann's classic literary masterpiece. Because the subject discussed is related to copying, imitation, and imitation, it itself also needs to imitate something and echo it in form. An intriguing meta-novel, the reading experience is novel and unique. The author brings his own identity into the novel. Readers can get a glimpse of the author's figure, creative ideas, and even the writing process of this novel, traveling back and forth in a parallel world of real and virtual.
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