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To rid himself of psychosomatic illnesses, an adult narrator calls up memories of his first years. Each traumatic memory is told as a story with its own title, an illustration from an old handbook for actors and a literary quotation. The boy grows up in a small flat with two women. His divorced mother is rarely home and wants something from life rather than caring for her ageing mother; she cut his father out of her life and out of a photograph. His grandmother, who would rather have God than him, fills his days with litanies about hell, tells him she sees the ghosts of the dead and shuts him in a wardrobe so that he can imagine death. What he does see, his mother's lovers for instance, he must deny. His uncles and a stranger in the street are the only men in his life.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

235 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

First published

2015 by Goga

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9789612770969 (original)

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