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Its narrator is haunted by voices and by the strange curse of being a \"forgotten\" figure inside an old edition of a book, and becomes consumed by a mystery involving a painter, a child, and a letter.\n\nThe novel unfolds as a labyrinth whose doors are the titles of other books: each chapter opens with a quotation drawn from a different novel, and each title leads onward to the next, forming a kind of map in the search for a lost treasure that may or may not exist. 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