The Dark Night of the Soul

The Dark Night of the Soul is a novel about a Ukrainian author, Lev Veles, who embarks on a spiritual journey to seek redemption and make his life cohere. Lev hopes to reconcile with his Russian daughter, Sophia, who believes that he is responsible for her mother's death. In Venice during the height of the pandemic, he meets a grotesquerie of characters at a Carnival ball who challenge his Christian faith. The Dead Bride, the Black Widow, the Doctor, and the Alchemist offer their conflictin...