Theft A Love Story Peter Carey

Am I to be a king, or just a pig?

—Gustave Flaubert, Intimate Notebook

Joachim had been born before the war, in the years when children still had to learn by heart the thirteen reasons for using a capital letter. To these he had added one more of his own, which was that he would, in all circumstances, do exactly what he wished.

—Macado Fernandez, One Man