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A father, a teacher, walked out of his son’s life without a trace when Danny was fourteen and a half. Many years on, a psychiatric hospital in London phones, courteously, to say that he has died, and Danny flies to England with his mother, mourning and full of questions. There they find a notebook in which the father set down, in careful detail, how he fell apart: all his life he had waged a hidden war against the degrading demands of earning a living. Through these pages the son comes to know, late, the inner depths of a man he had only ever seen as his father, and the novella weighs the claims of beauty and literature against the necessities of everyday life.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

217 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, United Kingdom

First published

2025 by Keter

Author's age

57 when first published