And we are consumed by flames
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And we are consumed by flames
9.99 €
7.99 €
The man wakes up in an unknown place - perhaps in a hospital room, but this is not accurate - and does not remember anything about himself at all. "Call me Ishmael," he suggests to the doctors, whom, for lack of other versions, he calls Yuri Zhivago and Madame Bovary. The man painfully recalls what happened to him (some kind of accident? and, it seems, he had love? and should he really be called Ishmael?). He describes circles around the clue, getting closer and closer to it - like a night moth that circles in the darkness and is doomed to perish in the flames. Meanwhile, just as cautiously and uncertainly around the man, narrowing the ring, walks his innocent victim and unwilling Nemesis, the future narrator of his story and just a confused orphaned teenager, as was once the man himself. Jaume Cabré (b. 1947) is a major star of Catalan literature; his books have been translated into dozens of languages and have sold over a million copies. His new novel "And the flames devour us" (the first in ten years after the epochal, award-winning "I Confess") - a subtle parable, a song for the glory of literature and intense noir: there will be sudden insights, inconsolable grief, true tenderness, murder, amnesia, chases, a mysterious femme fatale, as well as the boar family, without which this story would not have happened at all.
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- All books in the series The Big Affair (slim format)