Forest Dark

Product Description

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.