The Existentialist
Maremaa, Tom
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Add to basketSold by California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
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Add to basketTo live on the edge is to live existentially—without fear. In this work of magical realism, which spans almost half a century, we meet three young women who brave the elements of fate and fortune, passion and intrigue, living dangerously and with abandon on the highways and byways of the day. Sophia Pearl, a soldier, spy and teacher of philosophy, is at the center of the story, and we follow her life from the last days of Saigon to Berlin during the Cold War and beyond. Nikki Froelich is a German woman who suffers in an orphanage with her brother in Stasi-controlled East Germany. Lucy Cantor is the granddaughter of the man who invented, or perhaps more correctly, discovered the mathematics of infinity. She is also a mathematician, brilliant and passionate, who happens by chance to confront a criminal mastermind and perpetrator of horrific deeds from the past in quest of justice for his victims.
The lives and loves of all three women are inextricably bound together by their shared quest for justice and deliverance, and by their connection to an object with magical properties which Sophia Pearl discovers one night during a training mission in the Mojave Desert. But their shared quest comes with a price, with the specter of imminent danger from dark forces that wish to possess that coveted object. What choices will each woman need to make, and when it matters most—in the moment, existentially—to fend off those forces? Can they? Will they?
There is no reality except in action, wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, in defining the tenets of his philosophy of Existentialism. We are free whether we choose to be or not. We are the sum of our actions. Ultimately, each woman must decide on her preferred course of action through the labyrinth of time and history.
Rich in historical detail, deep in the emotional lives of its characters and drawing from many genres of modern fiction, The Existentialist takes us, as readers, on a journey of no return as we come away from this provocative and page-turning novel having seen and felt the world in ways we haven’t seen or felt before.
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