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My Solitary Birthday
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ISBN13: 9798233008351
Publisher: Ange Raphael Mukendi
Published: Jan 2 2026
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Ange Raphael Mukendi
Published: Jan 2 2026
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
At thirty-five, he lives through what seems like an ordinary day-yet one that will profoundly alter the way he sees himself. Between childhood memories, absences that have become routine, lost love, and wandering through an indifferent city, Raphaël comes face to face with a truth he has long avoided: he does not suffer only from the solitude imposed by others, but from his own gradual disappearance.
MY SOLITARY BIRTHDAY is an introspective, profound, and deeply human novel that explores those invisible moments when one stops waiting to be chosen and begins, instead, to choose oneself. A restrained and sensitive story, free of artifice, where silence becomes a mirror and solitude a passage.
This book speaks to those who grew up quietly, who learned to endure without complaint, and who feel that the time has come to live differently-with more truth, presence, and inner courage.
A novel about time, identity, and that invisible gift one sometimes receives when no one else is left.
This book speaks to those who grew up quietly, who learned to endure without complaint, and who feel that the time has come to live differently-with more truth, presence, and inner courage.
A novel about time, identity, and that invisible gift one sometimes receives when no one else is left.
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