The World Beside

We all wish we could read people’s minds and have access to their innermost doubts and feelings. Just like in real life, through the third person limited point of view The World Beside conveys the protagonists’ story revealing how different perspectives or representations of reality create confusion and conflict that leads them to strive for cohesion and endeavor to understand themselves and the others… Kai flees the busy city life and arrives in a small Scandinavian town where he hopes to live an uneventful life. But “the world beside” is never about peace, it is about individual choices and encounters with people whose choices create ripples that rock the boat. Kai takes a doped drink from a high-school graduate girl on Russefeiring and wakes up naked on the shore the next day without being able to remember what had happened. One single gap in his existence haunts him for another ten years till he is finally able to find out the truth. In the meantime, his relationship with Edda and the meeting with Gia, complicate his existence even more. The World Beside dwells on the theme of the protagonists’ path to self-awareness and moral individualism showing the brave undertaking of their minds to make sense of the world they live in and to give meaning to their existence. A philologist with a Master’s degree in Intercultural Cooperation, an experienced educator with a deep insight in psychology and pedagogy, and a life coach, Teo A. Dinu authored theses (on the mystical work of Gustave Flaubert or on the dystopian literature) and articles in educational sciences, linguistics, multiculturalism, English and French literature.