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Guest in Your Own Life: A Psychological Novel About Becoming Present in Your Own Life
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ISBN13: 9798249119720
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 20 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 20 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At some point, you realize you are no longer living your life. You are only managing it.
Guest in Your Own Life is a quiet, uncompromising novel about the distance between understanding and living.
These are stories about people who know what is wrong with their lives - and still continue to live as if nothing can be changed. About a man who survives instead of living. About a woman who has learned to be strong but forgotten how to be close. About a father who speaks through lists instead of words. About choices postponed, feelings anesthetized, and truths that arrive too late.
This is not a book about dramatic events.
It is a book about the moments when nothing happens - and everything is decided.
With restrained prose and psychological precision, Denys Kolesnykov explores how people slowly become strangers to their own lives, hiding behind routines, responsibilities, and good intentions. And how frightening it is to take the first real step back into presence.
Guest in Your Own Life is a novel about: - the gap between knowing and acting,
- the comfort of emotional distance,
- the fear of change,
- and the quiet courage it takes to finally stay.
It is a book about the moments when nothing happens - and everything is decided.
With restrained prose and psychological precision, Denys Kolesnykov explores how people slowly become strangers to their own lives, hiding behind routines, responsibilities, and good intentions. And how frightening it is to take the first real step back into presence.
Guest in Your Own Life is a novel about: - the gap between knowing and acting,
- the comfort of emotional distance,
- the fear of change,
- and the quiet courage it takes to finally stay.
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