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A Part and the Whole
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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
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ISBN10: 1038354536
ISBN13: 9781038354532
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781038354532
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Over the English Channel, on a cliff in Sussex known as a popular suicide site, a person was found later identified as Paul, a Canadian born in Poland. Paul is alive, but he does not remember anything, he does not know who he is and who he was. He does not even know if he is Paul or someone else entirely. Loss of memory is associated with the loss of identity, social position, awareness of belonging to a specific culture, nation, even sexual orientation.
After the accident, Paul undergoes many years of treatment. Is it recovering its memory or constructing a new one? Paul tries to understand who he is and what mystery his memory hides. Years later, his memory reconstructs the day Paul arrived in London and read the Princess Diana Spencer Accident Report. On the same day, Paul is entangled in a breakneck attempt to reveal the mystery of Princess Diana's death. A desire for profit, an obsession with solving puzzles or a midlife crisis lead Paul to a catastrophe. After a few days, his body is found over the English Channel, on a cliff in Sussex.
A Fragment and the Whole is a crime novel revolving around one of the great secrets of the twentieth century and the conspiracy theories surrounding it. It is also a text about breakthroughs in neuroscience and the latest research on the subject. The author has assembled a team of medical consultants who have collaborated on the text and verified its scientific legitimacy. A Fragment and the Whole is a metaphorical story of memory loss as denial. It is also a novel about aging, approaching death, and grappling with mortality. The text is written from the perspective of an aging man and is a study in masculinity at the turn of the twenty-first century.
After the accident, Paul undergoes many years of treatment. Is it recovering its memory or constructing a new one? Paul tries to understand who he is and what mystery his memory hides. Years later, his memory reconstructs the day Paul arrived in London and read the Princess Diana Spencer Accident Report. On the same day, Paul is entangled in a breakneck attempt to reveal the mystery of Princess Diana's death. A desire for profit, an obsession with solving puzzles or a midlife crisis lead Paul to a catastrophe. After a few days, his body is found over the English Channel, on a cliff in Sussex.
A Fragment and the Whole is a crime novel revolving around one of the great secrets of the twentieth century and the conspiracy theories surrounding it. It is also a text about breakthroughs in neuroscience and the latest research on the subject. The author has assembled a team of medical consultants who have collaborated on the text and verified its scientific legitimacy. A Fragment and the Whole is a metaphorical story of memory loss as denial. It is also a novel about aging, approaching death, and grappling with mortality. The text is written from the perspective of an aging man and is a study in masculinity at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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