ANIMALIC: A Journey Through Cities, Skin, and Scent - Couverture souple

Tekin, A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798255757060

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

For four years, he stayed inside. Not unhappy. Not broken. Just… reduced.

Then a bottle of perfume in Amsterdam asked a question he couldn't ignore.

ANIMALIC: A Journey Through Cities, Skin, and Scent is a travel memoir that follows one man through nine cities not to see them, but to smell them.

Bangkok, where beauty and filth are inseparable and the body remembers what the mind has been trying to forget. Tokyo, where silence reveals more than speech and a curtain falling in a ramen booth contains an entire philosophy of privacy. Amsterdam, where a tantra session sends him somewhere he didn't expect to go. Frankfurt, where two Romanians and a bowl of dolma explain more about European governance than any textbook. Budapest, where damage becomes structural beauty. Andalusia, where the same energy produces both a palace and an unrequested cup of coffee. Bucharest, where cruelty and tenderness are transformations of the same force. Paris, where the oldest perfume tells the oldest truth about what beauty requires. Istanbul, where a smell he has been searching for his entire life finally arrives and disappears.

This is not a book about fragrance.

It is about attention. About the body. About the invisible signals that tell the truth before language arrives. About what it costs to minimize yourself for years, and what it takes to come back.

A sensual, intellectual travel memoir for readers who have lived, paused, and are ready to feel again.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798255757060
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 245
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