![]() ![]() ![]() The award-winning book caused a stir when Vedran Smailović, a cellist whose story inspired the title, said he was not contacted about it and should have been compensated for the use of his image. Galloway, 38, gained fame for his 2008 bestseller, "The Cellist of Sarajevo," set during that city’s siege in the mid-1990s. Both Houdini, who died suddenly in 1926 of a ruptured appendix after being punched repeatedly in the stomach, and Strauss narrate parts of the tale in which fact and fiction intermingle and memories cannot be trusted. The book's main character, Martin Strauss, reflects on a life in which he believes he killed the Hungarian-American escape artist. Brown NEW YORK (Reuters) - Canadian author Steven Galloway explores the fickle nature of memory in "The Confabulist," his book about the life and death of one of the world's most famous magicians, Harry Houdini. ![]()
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