O Quinto Personagem

William Robertson Davies, um dos mais eminentes autores canadenses, criou, em "O Quinto Personagem", um retrato profundamente comovente de um ser humano sensível, cuja compreensão de seu papel na vida proporciona uma visão dos desígnios tortuosos do destino...

[From Wikipedia] "Fifth Business" (The Deptford Trilogy #1 -- The trilogy consists of Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972), and World of Wonders (1975) is a 1970 novel by Canadian playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies. It is the first instalment of the Deptford Trilogy and is a story of the life of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay. It is Davies' best-known novel and has been called his finest. First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1970, Fifth Business was selected 40th on the American Modern Library's "reader's list" of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.