Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. He hunts for names on paper in a huge network of desire, collecting them, selling them and occasionally faking them; offering people a little piece of fame. To him, enlightenment is some part of himself that cannot be signed, celebrated or sold.
Awards
Winner of Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Fiction 2003. Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2003 and Orange Prize for Fiction 2003.