β Scribed by Alba Arikha
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A gripping and poignant tale of chance encounters, tangled lies and painful discoveries, Where to Find Me is an inspiring account of how to face and overcome the effects of loss and tragedy in our daily lives. Hannah Karalis, a teenager living with her family in 1980s Notting Hill, becomes fascinated by her neighbour, Flora Dobbs, an enigmatic elderly woman who has clearly had an interesting past - but the improbable friendship that the two strike up is abruptly cut short by Flora's sudden departure from the neighbourhood. Eighteen years later, Hannah is astonished to receive a black notebook, which sets her on a quest to discover the truth and to confront the ghosts of an unresolved past. A gripping and poignant tale of chance encounters, tangled lies and painful discoveries, Where to Find Me is an inspiring account of how to face and overcome the effects of loss and tragedy in our daily lives.
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βOne hopes, one hunts, for a book that resembles nothing one has read before. Alba Arikha's Soon is not only a true original, it's beautiful, moving, and, yes, profound. Which makes it a rare creature indeed.β βMichael Cunningham
βThe looping structure and urgent storytelling of Where To Find Me pull the reader into the strange mechanics of our lives, by which historical cataclysms, dumb accident, momentary whims, and inexplicable desires act to bring us together or keep us apart.β βSiri Hustvedt
Alba Arikha is the author of four books: Muse and Walking on Ice, published by Macmillan in 1998 and 2000. Her memoir, Major/Minor, about her adolescence in Paris, was published by Quartet Books, shortlisted for the Spear's Award and selected among the best books of 2012 by The New Yorker. Her last book, a narrative poem, Soon, was set to music and performed as an opera at the Riverside Studios, London. In addition to her books, Alba is also a singer-songwriter, has performed in London and Paris and recorded two CDs.
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Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781846884481
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