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The Beholder
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.60
ISBN13: 9783952640425
Publisher: Sbvv
Published: Jan 4 2026
Pages: 360
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In this poetic journey of loss and discovery, an unnamed man wakes in darkness and begins another day. The small acts of his morning ritual draw him in a numinous meditation of past and present -from the scent of coffee that evokes his childhood on a farm, to the hum of the local market that echoes with memories of his distant voyages. Gradually, his story emerges in the mind's eye like a tapestry woven with threads of literature, love, and fate.
Decades earlier, when working as a young stevedore in a small coastal town, a chance encounter leads him to a life of success as a seafaring trader, taking him on a journey through the moral maze of human affairs. But a sudden turn of events confronts him with the pain of betrayal and irrevocable loss. He returns to the town where it all began, his destiny marred by a cruel act. Yet, with hope sustained by companionship, poetry, and a lingering voice from his early youth, he shapes an existence anchored in simplicity and quiet joy.
This is an odyssey of the spirit - a luminous tale that reveals how life can be transformed through a simple act: how we choose to see the world.
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