Two Halves of the Same Life - Couverture souple

Gibbs, S.J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798265007452

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Elio is a translator of delicate things—poetry, fleeting glances, the rhythm of Mara’s voice as they walk the city together. By day, he lingers in cafés, bending language into tenderness. By night, he scrolls, drawn into a vortex of outrage and digital noise, tasked with translating the raw fury of a viral controversy for others to understand.
With Mara, intimacy blooms in the quiet: shared stories, slow walks, the solace of presence. Yet their bond is haunted by what hovers on screens—misread messages, cryptic status updates, betrayals imagined or real. When neighbours call a rally, Elio joins, only to watch the protest dissolve into clips, hashtags, and arguments.
As suspicion seeps between him and Mara, every word becomes contested territory, every silence another translation problem. Elio drifts deeper into the absurd and the tragic of the online world—threads of conspiracy, anonymous cruelty, meaning unmoored.
In a final act of resistance, he turns away from screens and writes a letter by hand: raw, unfiltered, and fragile as breath. Two Halves of the Same Life is a novel of fractured intimacies and the battle to stay human in a world that speaks in fragments.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798265007452
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 113
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