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His Son
Louis Chabos grew up in a children’s home in Milan. After his battlefield experiences during Napoleon’s Russian campaign, he wants only one thing: to settle down to a comfortable life at long last and build a family. In Grisons, in eastern Switzerland, he finds the small piece of happiness he has hoped for. But he squanders it when his desperate urge to track down his unknown father lures him to Paris, where he seeks his destiny amid the splendour and the misery.
368 pages
2022
978-3-257-07210-5
»Existential philosophy was never more entertaining or moving.«
»Throughout the novel, he makes us participate closely in the desperate fight for origins – right up to the end and even beyond it.«
»The novel expertly links historical events with the psychological dimension of the search for identity.«
»In His Son, Lewinsky shows once again how adeptly he has mastered literature’s original form.«
»The novel’s breath-taking tension is also attributable to Lewinsky's powerful eloquence, which is rooted in minimalism.«
»His Son by Charles Lewinsky is enjoyable entertainment from childhood to kinghood.«
»An anti-fairy tale, therefore; like so many fairy tales, it begins in a sinister way then finds a fairy tale ending – but is still far from over.«
»He also shines a light into the very depth of people’s souls and precisely depicts the dark depths and motivations he finds there.«
»Poverty, war, disease and the French Revolution provide the soundtrack to which Lewinsky narrates Louis Chabos’ incredibly moving fate.«
»A highly gripping story, due in part to Lewinsky’s narrative eloquence.«