DARKNESS OF MIND: A trilogy on the art of opera, and murder - Couverture souple

Bever, Hugo Van

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ISBN 10 : 1481781677 ISBN 13 : 9781481781671

Editeur : AuthorHouseUK, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A Sweet Double Murder Out of the blue, a retired professor commits a double murder in his apartment, killing two men. In a monologue, at the police station, he explains why he did it, reflecting on wars, holocausts, religion, power, money, lust, love, and on the intellectual limitations of the human race When Death Does Not Part After ten years at a psychiatric institute, Thomas, a fifty-year-old teacher, returns to Florence in search of the truth. Retracing the steps he took with his young lover Irena, he learns who she really was. As similarities to Verdi’s opera Rigoletto haunt the pages, Thomas confesses what happened between them in a desperate attempt to purify his soul, find peace of mind, and love. Unable to accept the truth and its horrifying implications Thomas is doomed to relive his past. On My Father’s Bike “I wanted to become the first creator of perfect and painless love. It was my father’s fault. Indirectly he forced me, because I loved him too much. Indeed, my father. Can you believe it? I wanted to optimize love by transforming into what you love. Imagine the advantages! Wouldn’t it be delightful to adopt the patience of the snake, the speed of the panther, the devilish persistence of the scorpion, or the beauty of the orchid? And imagine absorbing the beauty of a lover? Nut’s beauty? For he surely was beautiful. You’d reach ultimate perfection. Ultimate love! But how do you do it? How do you turn yourself into what you love? Being a scientist, and brilliant, I had hit upon a scientific method that would allow me to achieve such a transformation. Call it reverse metabolism. ” These are the words of Andre Junior, a professor who is certain that his mission in life is to prove that reverse metabolism is possible. So certain, in fact, he is willing to kill for it, even eat for it.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in Wetteren, Belgium (1953), Hugo Van Bever lives in Singapore, where he teaches at the National University Singapore (NUS) in the Department of Pediatrics. Teaching and clinical research are his vocation, but literature and writing are his passion. Hugo Van Bever has been writing poetry and fiction since childhood, and it was with the gentle nudge of friends that he finally began publishing in 2010. His debut novel A Sweet Double Murder was followed by When Death Does Not Part in 2011, and On My Fathers Bike in 2012. The three novels create a trilogy, Darkness Of Mind, which explores the deepest and darkest corners of the human mind and soul.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouseUK
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1481781677
• ISBN 13: 9781481781671
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 418