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Sweetcorn: A Lost and Found Journey
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Bernspen
Published: Mar 18 2026
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Fred de Llanas was a man who measured the world in skyscrapers and steel. As a titan of industry, his Empire of Glass was built on the cold, hard logic of billion-peso mergers and impenetrable boardrooms. But when a tragic accident claims his wife, Aileen, the glass shatters.
Left with a fortune that feels like a burial shroud and a heart that has forgotten how to beat, Fred makes a radical choice. He liquidates his life, turns his back on the 50th floor, and descends into the humid, chaotic heart of Ermita.
In a cramped tenement room overlooking a bustling warehouse, the General finds himself stripped of his suit, his status, and his certainty. It is here, amidst the scent of charcoal and steamed corn, that he meets Elmo-a ten-year-old vendor with the eyes of an engineer and the burden of a man.
What begins as a bitter man's retreat into the Philosophy of the Void transforms into a high-stakes investment in human dignity. Using his corporate brilliance to fight local thugs and systemic poverty, Fred learns his final and most difficult lesson: that a life is only truly found when it is completely given away.
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