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Heart Fever

Heart Fever

Laerhoven, Bob Van
Faktorovich, Anna

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798595014472
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 14 2021
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
After his much-acclaimed short story collection Dangerous Obsessions, which had war as a common background, Belgian/Flemish author Van Laerhoven surprises again with five stories that shed piercing light on our most self-destructive impulses. A steroid-spiked Syrian mercenary of Bashar-al-Assad is determined to become a martyr, after the loss of his right arm by friendly fire. A retired London tube-driver becomes obsessed by his desire to revenge the vicious killing of his parents in Croatia on his half-nephew. A Belgian travel-writer gets entangled in the madness of the Kosovo-war during the nineties and witnesses its dramatic consequences many years later in New York. A jaded art brut painter in Brussels betrays his best friend, a Rwandese art forger, to the Mafia, opening the door to guilt, lust, and murder. A born liar with the nickname Johnny di Machio seeks in the seventies, in Poona, India, salvation in Bhagwan's ashram for his sexual problems, but gets trapped in a maze of long hidden violence.Aldous Huxley wrote in Brave New World (1932): Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly-they'll go through anything. This is precisely what Van Laerhoven does, relentlessly exposing our inner solitude and voracious egos. Heart Fever goes way beyond heartache.

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