The Delicate Beast
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Sell my copyAuthor: Roger Celestin
Title: The Delicate Beast
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 432
Release Date: 2025
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A novel of a life built on the ashes of childhood
In the 1950s Tropical Republic, a boy lives amid opulence and privilege, spending days at the beach or in the cool hills above the sweltering capital, enjoying leisurely Sunday lunches around the family compound's swimming pool. That is, until the reign of The Mortician begins, unleashing unimaginable horrors that bring his childhood idyll to an end. Narrowly escaping the violent fate visited on so many of his fellow citizens, he and his brother follow their parents into exile in the United States where they must start a new life. But as he grows, he never feels at home, and leaves his family to travel across Europe and outrun the ghosts of the past.
A searing novel of a life lived in the shadow of history, The Delicate Beast portrays the persistent, pernicious legacy of political violence.
EAN: 9781954276369
Package Dimensions: height: 208 mm, length: 138 mm, width: 30 mm, weight: 476 g
Languages: en
