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Daphnis and Chloe
Paperback
RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781771967235
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: Nov 10 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Longlisted for the 2026 Giller Prize - A 2026 CIBA Booksellers' List Selection - One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026
A fable about love and innocence and beauty, and finding a light through the darkness.
There's a city on an island in the Pacific that can only be reached by ferry, a city where a mechanic named Frank opens a garage with his old friend Charlie. Both men marry the women they love but are unable to have children. There are drugs on the streets of this city that take away pain for strings of minutes and bring synthetic rapture; and by these streets the couples are given two babies, abandoned under strange circumstances. The boy they name Daphnis, and the girl Chloe.
And so begins a book unlike anything else, a modern retelling of an ancient story. Part Ovid and part True Romance, and narrated by Eros himself, Daphnis and Chloe offers a pulpy meditation on love and beauty, on people triumphing over darkness by wrestling deep within it, on the solace of art, and on the simple but profound pleasure provided to a blind old man as he holds his wife's hand and listens to an increasingly familiar story.
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