Forest Dark Paperback

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From the bestselling twice Orange Prize-shortlisted National Book Award-nominated author comes a vibrant tale of transformation of a man in his later years & a woman novelist each drawn to the Levant on a journey of self-discovery Jules Epstein has vanished from the world He leaves no trace but a rundown flat patrolled by a solitary cockroach & a monogrammed briefcase abandoned in the desert To Epstein&s mystified family the disappearance of a man whose drive & avidity have been a force to be reckoned with for sixty-eight years marks the conclusion of a gradual fading This transformation began in the wake of Epstein&s parents& deaths & continued with his divorce after more than thirty-five years of marriage his retirement from a New York legal firm & the rapid shedding of possessions he&d spent a lifetime accumulating With the last of his wealth & a nebulous plan he departs for the Tel Aviv Hilton Meanwhile a novelist leaves her husband & children behind in Brooklyn & checks into the same hotel hoping that the view of the pool she used to swim in on childhood holidays will unlock her writer&s block But when a man claiming to be a retired professor of literature recruits her for a project involving Kafka she is drawn into a mystery that will take her on a metaphysical journey & change her in ways she could never have imagined Bursting with life & humour this is a profound mesmerising achingly beautiful novel of metamorphosis & self-realisation
- of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite