My Life as a Fake European History Violet finds herself in the

Violet finds herself in the midst of the action and determines to put an end to the evil baron's mis­treatment of the hardworking people

and what started out as a joke has suddenly turned serious

no matter the outcome

But Cedar’s been hiding a secret of her own

This history and its reverberations demand a reckoning and a commitment to wage a new War on Poverty

My Life as a Fake European History Violet finds herself in theAn Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating, 'continuously startling' (John Updike) contemplation of the art world. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. In this dubious work Sarah recognises a real genius. But