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In The Illusion of Separateness, award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells a harrowing and enchanting story of how one man's act of mercy during World War II changed the lives of strangers, and how they each discover the astonishing truth of their connection.

Whether they are pursued by Nazi soldiers, old age, shame, deformity, disease, or regret, the characters in this utterly compelling novel discover in their, darkest moments of fear and isolation that they are not alone, that they were never alone, that every human being is a link in an unseen chain.

»Wenn Sie Freude in Ihrem Leseleben haben wollen, kaufen Sie dieses Buch.« Jojo Moyes

Helen Cartwright ist 83 Jahre alt und hat keine großen Erwartungen mehr an ihre Zukunft. Doch eines Tages tritt das Schicksal in Form einer Maus in ihr Leben. Nach und nach, in kleinen Schritten, wagt sie unfreiwillig einen Neuanfang. Mit großem Gefühl erzählt Simon Van Booy von der außergewöhnlichen Freundschaft zwischen einer Witwe und einer Maus, und erinnert uns daran, dass es immer zweite Chancen geben...

A master storyteller's vision reawakens us to the human experience in this diverse, haunting, and unexpectedly humorous new collection of short fiction from Simon Van Booy--his first since Love Begins in Winter, winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

"She believed it was a gift to never truly know the self. We are not who we think we are, nor how others see us. Long before death, we die a thousand times at the hands of a definition."

In his first book of short stories since Love Begins in Winter, for which he won the Frank...