The Existentialist
To live on the edge is to live existentially--without fear. In this work of magical realism, which spans almost half a century, we meet three young women who brave the elements of fate and fortune, passion and intrigue, living dangerously and with abandon on the highways and byways of the day. Sophia Pearl, a soldier, spy and teacher of philosophy, is at the center of the story, and we follow her life from the last days of Saigon to the Berlin during the Cold War and beyond. Nikki Froelich is a German woman who suffers in an orphanage with her brother in Stasi-controlled East Germany. Lucy Cantor is the granddaughter of the man who invented, or perhaps more correctly, discovered the mathematics of infinity. She is also a mathematician, brilliant and passionate, who happens by chance to confront a criminal mastermind and perpetrator of horrific deeds from the past in quest of justice for his victims. The lives an d loves of all three women are inextricably bound together by their shared quest for justice and deliverance, and by their connection to an object with magical properties which Sophia Pearl discovers one night during a training mission in the Mojave Desert. But their shared quest comes with a price, with the specter of imminent danger from dark forces that wish to possess that coveted object Rich in historical detail, deep in the emotional lives of its characters and drawing from many genres of modern fiction, The Existentialist takes us, as readers, on a journey of no return as we come away from this provocative and page-turning novel having seen and felt the world in ways we haven't seen or felt before.
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The Existentialist
To live on the edge is to live existentially--without fear. In this work of magical realism, which spans almost half a century, we meet three young women who brave the elements of fate and fortune, passion and intrigue, living dangerously and with abandon on the highways and byways of the day. Sophia Pearl, a soldier, spy and teacher of philosophy, is at the center of the story, and we follow her life from the last days of Saigon to the Berlin during the Cold War and beyond. Nikki Froelich is a German woman who suffers in an orphanage with her brother in Stasi-controlled East Germany. Lucy Cantor is the granddaughter of the man who invented, or perhaps more correctly, discovered the mathematics of infinity. She is also a mathematician, brilliant and passionate, who happens by chance to confront a criminal mastermind and perpetrator of horrific deeds from the past in quest of justice for his victims. The lives an d loves of all three women are inextricably bound together by their shared quest for justice and deliverance, and by their connection to an object with magical properties which Sophia Pearl discovers one night during a training mission in the Mojave Desert. But their shared quest comes with a price, with the specter of imminent danger from dark forces that wish to possess that coveted object Rich in historical detail, deep in the emotional lives of its characters and drawing from many genres of modern fiction, The Existentialist takes us, as readers, on a journey of no return as we come away from this provocative and page-turning novel having seen and felt the world in ways we haven't seen or felt before.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798494822628 |
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| Publisher: | Black Tea Press |
| Publication date: | 10/11/2021 |
| Pages: | 406 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d) |
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