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LightTimothy O'Grady

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2004272 pages
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An elderly Pole sits in a cafe in Krakow. At another table a young man with a ravaged face is drinking wine and reading. They begin to talk. All through the night as they go from bar to bar the young man tells the story of the great love of his life, of how in the midst of their rapture the woman inexplicably disappeared, and of how he is now driving across Europe in a desperate attempt to find her. After they part in the pre-dawn light the old man returns to his rooms and finds himself beset by questions. Why can he not forget this young man? Who was the woman he was with and why did she…

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3 editions
  • Other · English · 2013
    Penguin Random House · 272 pages · 9780099584070
  • Other · English · 2012
    Penguin Random House · 272 pages · 9781448129980
  • Other · English · 2004
    Secker & Warburg · 266 pages · 9780436206429
Fiction, generalEurope, fictionBetrayalFictionFriendship