Days between stations.

Michelle Sarr irretrievably lost past. A piece of film with a hypnotic woman's face - his only compass in a surrealistic drift from Los Angeles with sand highways via Paris, lit only by the street lights of fires, to Venice, where in the dry channels of the Cycling suit. And if Michelle wants to reclaim memory, his grandfather Adolf Sarr, a former child Prodigy silent cinema, running memory about how in the 1920s a lost, seemingly forever masterpiece "the Death of Marat"...

Fame is the debut novel by the author of "Amnesiascope" and "Appeared in the midnight sea", perhaps the best start writing in American literature of the late twentieth century.