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 cafe 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.

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SIMON LIBERATI, born in 1960, is a journalist and editor living in Paris. Anthology of Apparitions is his first novel.

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Translated by Paul Buck & Catherine Petit
Cover photograph by Thomas Nützl
ISBN 1 901 285 58 8