Learning to Die
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
"Thrown off course by a shocking diagnosis, five friends confront the realities of money, meaning, marriage, and mortality, in this vivaciously intelligent novel about how to live and die.".
Thomas Maloney è un autore contemporaneo la cui opera è profondamente radicata nell'indagine intellettuale, probabilmente derivante dal suo background in fisica. Esplora temi complessi attraverso una lente narrativa unica, invitando i lettori a considerare profonde domande sull'esistenza e sulla condizione umana. La sua prosa è caratterizzata dalla sua precisione e dal suo potere evocativo, creando mondi immersivi che risuonano a lungo dopo l'ultima pagina.


"Thrown off course by a shocking diagnosis, five friends confront the realities of money, meaning, marriage, and mortality, in this vivaciously intelligent novel about how to live and die.".
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017 WANTED: Diligent volunteer to carry out two months’ painstaking archival work for private library. Board and lodging provided; curiosity and imagination rewarded. When Samuel Browne’s wife unexpectedly leaves him, his world crumbles — until he spies this job advert hidden between the pages of a second-hand book. It leads him deep into the English countryside, to a new job in a cold and ancient house. Sam must find a lost letter, hidden in a library of eighteen thousand books. As he sets to work under the watchful eyes of the house’s eccentric inhabitants, he soon realises that this is not the only mystery that this strange, seductive place holds …