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Melisande! What Are Dreams?

Hillel Halkin author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Granta Books

Published:4th Apr '13

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Melisande! What Are Dreams? cover

An older man writes to and about his wife... in this moving debut novel by the illustrious translator and political commentator

An inspiring novel; a philosophical love story; a moving ode to a woman, as joyful and celebratory as it is elegiac. The narrator is a man in his forties, a scholar of ancient Greek philosophy known as Hoo. He has been given the nickname by Mellie, the woman he addresses in this book while exploring his memories of their years together and apart. The two of them have known each other since high school in New York in the 1950s - and perhaps, Hoo thinks, much longer than that. Only as the novel unfolds do his reasons for writing to her, and the full nature of their relationship, become clear.

ISBN: 9781847085009

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 162g

224 pages