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Two Euro Candles: A Memoir of Faith, Trauma and Quiet Miracles
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $29.88
ISBN13: 9780648847069
Publisher: Euraus Publishing
Published: Aug 17 2025
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Winner - 2025 Literary Global Book Awards
1st Place Winner - 2025 Chanticleer International Book Awards
Gold Medal - Illumination Book Awards
Finalist - Next Generation Indie Book Awards
5-Star review - Reader Views Book Reviews
Two Euro Candles by Maxsense Maximus is a confessional novel that fuses memoir, fiction, and spiritual meditation. Set in Ostend, it begins with the narrator retreating from personal turmoil, seeking solitude on the North Sea coast. Instead, he becomes immersed in the rhythm of the city: cafés, laundrettes, and above all the church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, where a ritual unfolds-candles lit for two euros, each flame carrying whispered prayers from the desperate, the hopeful, and the broken.
The narrator observes these small acts with irony and tenderness. Sometimes he laughs at their transactional absurdity, yet he is moved to tears by their raw humanity, such as a child asking Mary to stop her mother's grief. His reflections expand into his own history: childhood violence, a fractured brotherhood, and the weight of generational trauma. Returning to Belgium becomes both pilgrimage and confrontation.
Amid these fragments emerges the voice of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux-not solemn, but playful, witty, and unafraid to mock. Her presence unsettles and consoles, pushing the narrator to confront doubts, seek authenticity, and wrestle with faith as honesty rather than conformity.
Blending humour with sorrow, absurdity with grace, Two Euro Candles is a mosaic of moments rather than a traditional plot. It offers no neat resolutions, but insists that small gestures-lighting a candle, whispering a name, or daring to laugh in the silence-may themselves be miraculous. It is raw, tender, and quietly luminous.
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