Къщата на клоуните

In the last days of his life, a strange, nameless recluse tells himself the story of his extraordinary love. He grew up in the Mahogany Castle, the realm of his mother, a painter of pain, after his father, the Three-Armed Clown, died performing a dangerous act. As a child he found the House of the Clowns in the cemetery for circus artists where his father lies, a house where enigmatic people find peace and perhaps a gateway to eternity. Now he brings there Maya, his mute, paralysed wife, and their son Strangeness, who has Down syndrome, and recalls their first meeting and the long, harrowing birth of their child. A lover of surrealism, old poems, exotic flowers and gems, he sets the verses of the mystic poet Mors Immortalis against Lucretius's disbelief in an afterlife.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

160 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2011 by Ciela

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789542809067 (original)