Actually, not even the book itself, but a review of the book!
Martel thanked Scliar for “the spark of life,” but later said he had not read Scliar’s novel, only a review of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_the_Cats
Moacyr Jaime Scliar (March 23, 1937 – February 27, 2011) was a Brazilian writer and physician. Most of his writing centers on issues of Jewish identity in the Diaspora and particularly on being Jewish in Brazil.
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