Suspirium: A Novel

Suspirium is narrated by Kairos, the depth dimension of Time. It is the story of a man named Fields, described on the opening page as a man whose soul has been “criminally mislaid." Shortly after Fields' death at sixty-two, Kairos accompanies him to a meridian between this life and the next, a kind of purgatory where he has one last chance to complete the individuation he shied away from in waking life. Here, Fields must revisit memories, forgotten dreams, and spontaneous visions—flashes of...