Christmas page turner.

(From Budapest Business Journal)

Byline: Maya Mirsky

Books for lit-lovers Peter Carey My Life As a Fake (U.K. edition: Faber & Faber) In the brilliant Australian author's latest, Bob McCorkle's humble poetry becomes celebrated across the land - except that McCorkle is a fake. Or is he? Inspired by an actual literary hoax, McCorkle is the ultimate creation taking vengeance on his creator. DBC Pierre Vernon God Little (U.K. edition: Faber & Faber) The Booker Prize-winner by first-time novelist and all-round character DBC Pierre is a dark, funny tale of violence and ignorance in modern-day America. Its hero is accused of a school shooting and determined to find the Mexico of his imagination. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Living to Tell the Tale: The Man of Macondo (Knopf) The dreamlike, intense worlds created by the master Colombian author in his fiction are given their real-life counterparts in this …