Gnuj & Alt
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Publisher Description
When Alt meets Gnuj, a woman twenty years younger, their worlds collide, turning everything upside down. Lonesome and married to a man living in another country, Gnuj allows Alt to get close to her and woe her into a love she would have never guessed she'd ever entertain. In his debut English novel, Edgar Smith stirs the waters of our thought fountains by questioning the influence of our upbringing, the people who raise us, the effects of our surroundings and the power of love. Ultimately, in the voice of Alt, the narrator of the story, the reader travels to the times of the characters' childhoods because, according to Alt, it is there where all the answers to our lives dwell.
Customer Reviews
This Review Is No Coincidence
It is not possible for me to write a purely objective review of any of Edgar Smith's literary creations; I've been reading Edgar since our youth was spent in the classrooms of a high school in Dominican Republic where we would exchange our works. I wrote mainly poetry of the silly high school kind paying more attention to metric and rhyme as for Edgar, he ventured into a full range of writing that included comics and biographies of the people in his life,The type of writing that required more thinking and planning and emotional development. It's no coincidence that he is now a published author although I'm still waiting for his comic book about a space warlord and his ninja companion saving the galaxy from evil overlords but that's another story. When I first read Gnuj and Alt I kept looking for influences of our favorite authors and while I found some similarities here and there I had to re-read the book and find my friend's entertaining style of telling his own truth as there is more of Edgar in this book than of Junot Diaz or Gabriel García Marquez or even Neruda. Finding this gem "almost" biographical, and "almost" a self fulfilling prophecy. On my third reading I will be looking for a piece of myself if not in the characters in the "almost" metaphysical insights of Edgar's Philosophy. The only words that I have for the Wordsmith that is absolutely objective and unifluenced by our friendship is this, Thank You for writing this.