Aleph
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Kann man seine Vergangenheit zurücklassen wie einen Bahnhof, aus dem man gerade hinausfährt? Kann man sich selbst neu entdecken wie ein fremdes, neues Land? In der Transsibirischen Eisenbahn begegnet ein Schriftsteller einer jungen Stargeigerin – und gleichzeitig einer dunklen Seite seines früheren Lebens. Er gerät in ein Paralleluniversum, in dem Zeit und Raum zusammenfallen – das ›Aleph‹. Und er erkennt seine Chance, eine alte Schuld zu bewältigen und sein Leben noch einmal neu zu beginnen.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this chimerical tale, protagonist Paolo embarks on a journey to remedy his dissatisfaction with life, a frustration he feels despite enjoying the accoutrements of success. Given that his world includes clairvoyance, Divine Energy, and time-travel, Paolo's is not the usual existential crisis. His present-day troubles, in fact, can be traced to betrayals during a previous incarnation that took place during the Inquisition. When he encounters Hilal, a woman he wronged, complications arise from their shared experience in The Aleph: "the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time." Given the couple's history, Paolo's response is curiously practical and distant: "reopening old wounds is neither easy nor particularly important. The only justification is that the knowledge acquired might help me to gain a better understanding of the present." Although the novel requires ample suspension of disbelief, there's no better author to serve such a work than Coelho (The Alchemist) his main character bears the weight of the sometimes ambiguous and wandering narrative with pithy reflections.
