344 pages
English language
Published 2008 by Pantheon Books.
344 pages
English language
Published 2008 by Pantheon Books.
Asterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never built an actual building, and a pedant in the midst of a spiritual crisis. After the structure of his own life falls apart, he runs away to try to rebuild it into something new.