"While this is a brutal and self-consciously referential work, it is also fascinating, well written and rewardingly different from the countless novels about people you think you recognise or, worse, think you are. Anthology of Apparitions is a valuable and at times tender examination of an unenviable, alien soul"
SIMON BAKER New Statesman
"Everything is unsettling in this bittersweet chronicle of a time of innocence which refuses to die"
"Everything is unsettling in this bittersweet chronicle of a time of innocence which refuses to die"
THOMAS REGNIER Le Nouvel Observateur
"Simon Liberati's ... first novel ... resonates with an astonishing control that seizes you ... and does not free you until the last line, totally shaken and joyful before such audacity and eloquence"
"Simon Liberati's ... first novel ... resonates with an astonishing control that seizes you ... and does not free you until the last line, totally shaken and joyful before such audacity and eloquence"
ALEXANDRE FILLON Livres Hebdo
ABOUT THE BOOK
Claude is a fallen angel from the hedonistic 1970's nightclubbing scene in Paris and St Tropez. As Anthology of Apparitions begins, he is in his forties, destroyed by the mystery of his sister's disappearance−he sits in a café drinking and day-dreaming. Only the ghostly appearances from his past make life tolerable. Claude is haunted by memories and visions of 1976, when he was sixteen and his sister Marina only a child. Together they belonged to the world of wild young things living on the edge, but when Marina started to lose her way, Claude did nothing to save her.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SIMON LIBERATI, born in 1960, is a journalist and editor living in Paris. Anthology of Apparitions is his first novel.
Translated by Paul Buck & Catherine Petit
ABOUT THE BOOK
Claude is a fallen angel from the hedonistic 1970's nightclubbing scene in Paris and St Tropez. As Anthology of Apparitions begins, he is in his forties, destroyed by the mystery of his sister's disappearance−he sits in a café drinking and day-dreaming. Only the ghostly appearances from his past make life tolerable. Claude is haunted by memories and visions of 1976, when he was sixteen and his sister Marina only a child. Together they belonged to the world of wild young things living on the edge, but when Marina started to lose her way, Claude did nothing to save her.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SIMON LIBERATI, born in 1960, is a journalist and editor living in Paris. Anthology of Apparitions is his first novel.
Translated by Paul Buck & Catherine Petit
Cover photograph: Thomas Nützl
ISBN 978 1 901285 58 1
144pp
