One of the most widely admired writers of our time returns us to the captivating play and narrative allure of his previous novels--*G.* and *To the Wedding* among them--with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother
Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths
โ Scribed by Berger, John
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
- Year
- 2007;2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
An encounter with the ghost of his late mother, dead for fifteen years, draws the narrator into a remarkable odyssey during which he explores the lives of the dead, from a woman at the time of the London blitz to a Paleolithic cave.
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