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Chris Power's stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends - at ancient Swedish burial sites, river crossings on Exmoor, and raucous Mexican weddings.
Chris Power is een auteur wiens werken zich verdiepen in de diepten van de menselijke ervaring. Zijn schrijven staat bekend om zijn indringende psychologische diepte en zorgvuldig gekozen taal, die lezers trekt in de ingewikkelde innerlijke levens van zijn personages. Power verkent meesterlijk thema's als identiteit, vervreemding en de zoektocht naar betekenis in de moderne wereld. Zijn vermogen om de subtiele nuances van menselijke relaties en existentiële dilemma's vast te leggen, maakt hem tot een belangrijke stem in de hedendaagse literatuur.


Chris Power's stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends - at ancient Swedish burial sites, river crossings on Exmoor, and raucous Mexican weddings.
Robert is a struggling writer living in Berlin with his wife and two young daughters. One night he meets Patrick, an enigmatic stranger with a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch - recently found hanged - who is now being followed. But is he really in danger? Patrick's life strikes Robert as a fabrication, but one that comes to obsess him. He decides to use the other man, and his story. An elegant and atmospheric twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is a novel of shadows, of the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth. As his association with Patrick hurtles towards tragedy, Robert must decide: are actual events the only things that give a story life, and are some stories too dangerous to tell?