Seni Glaister
The Museum of Things Left Behind
Vallerosa is a country somewhere in Europe, a land of great plenty and beauty tied up in bureaucratic knots by its neurotic and lonely President. When a young English girl on her gap year is mistaken for a member of the British royal family, she is given access to every corner of Vallerosan society, and her interventions and insights begin to heal the dysfunctional country.
Reminiscent of the fantastical fables of Italo Calvino and Jonas Jonasson - or Wes Anderson's “Grand Budapest Hotel” - this is a tour de force of endless invention; a hilarious, enchanting and surprisingly relevant tale which will make you see the world as if freshly minted.