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Thomas Helder
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Publisher: Europa Editions
Pages: 176
Language: English
An intimate, haunting novel about the invisible bonds that survive betrayal and death.
Châteauvieux-sur-l'Aubrac, deep winter. The celebrated Dutch writer Thomas Helder has died at just forty-six. After the funeral, his family and closest friends gather at the remote country house where he spent his childhood summers and where, in the final days of his illness, he chose to return. Among them is Margaux Chanet, Thomas's oldest friend: a renowned French architect who vanished years earlier without explanation, abandoning the people who loved her most.
Over the course of a long snowy night, as wine flows and memories surface, old wounds reopen and buried truths begin to emerge. At the center of the gathering is an extraordinary conversation between Margaux and Jorg, Thomas's enigmatic brother, who tells her of a mysterious cabin on the northern coast of the Netherlands. A place where grief seems to dissolve the boundaries between past and present, living and dead.
Moving between Amsterdam and the windswept plateaus of the Aubrac, Thomas Helder is a fervent examination of mourning, memory, and the lives we carry within us long after loss--one that reaffirms Muriel Barbery as a singular voice in European literature.
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