In this highly original novel, the art of the prose poem is twisted into a black comedy drama about melancholy where local legends Jake and Josef Boom know all about telling a good yarn or two. Jake was once a local reporter and now sells flowers from his father's overgrown garden. Josef, once a private tutor, is lost in the telling of his own story. When Jake's girlfriend Mora goes missing, both him and his father turn over every stone to uncover the culprit in her disappearance. Aided by war veteran Holwell Brown, White Nights caf owner Arielle, Dal and Charlotte Mouswald, along with shady detective Paul Brothers and the equally surreptitious accountant Morton Campbell, Jake recounts each of their lives and how everybody has become wet in the rain somehow. Even when the ashes are still burning. The story brings together accounts of comedy, childhood, heartbreak, loss, death, murder and cannibalism. And like all good tales, it is at the end where our story begins.
A human heart in the hands of a patron dining in the White Nights cafe; children swinging from the trees in the grounds of a local church; a body found by the river during a torrential downpour; bullets in the garden in a random game of William Tell but who can say who is buried beneath the small wooden cross? A house can only give away so many secrets, most remain left to providence. With so many stories to tell, it should be a normal day in Burningtree for local journalist Jake Boom. Only when his boat is found burning on the beach by the local police and his girlfiend Mora fails to return home from a trip to Paris, does the spotlight turn on Jake himself and his father... with Brothers waiting to knock at their front door once again. "The Fall of Levitation" tears down the walls of every story this professional flaneur has investigated. It is a story of childhood, of heartbreak, of high comedy and surreal drama. And like all good stories, it is at the end where this one must begin...
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A human heart in the hands of a patron dining in the White Nights cafe; children swinging from the trees in the grounds of a local church; a body found by the river during a torrential downpour; bullets in the garden in a random game of William Tell but who can say who is buried beneath the small wooden cross? A house can only give away so many secrets, most remain left to providence. With so many stories to tell, it should be a normal day in Burningtree for local journalist Jake Boom. Only when his boat is found burning on the beach by the local police and his girlfiend Mora fails to return home from a trip to Paris, does the spotlight turn on Jake himself and his father... with Brothers waiting to knock at their front door once again. "The Fall of Levitation" tears down the walls of every story this professional flaneur has investigated. It is a story of childhood, of heartbreak, of high comedy and surreal drama. And like all good stories, it is at the end where this one must begin...
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.