Eriyen Mariyana

The Edge of Thirty-Seven's Shadow (eBook, ePUB)

A Geometry of Quiet Failures
Redaktion: Tools, AI Assisted

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Every afternoon between five and seven, a thirty-seven-year-old man sits beneath a west-facing window and watches the fire-escape shadows slice the brick wall opposite with merciless precision. Three-eighths of the frame. Never more, never less. In that fixed geometry he measures the distance between the life he has and the life quietly leaking away.

Memory keeps correcting the present-"Wait. No. Check the angle."-until past and present fold into a single obsessive loop. Boredom is not absence here; it is the crushing presence of everything that will not change.

Spare, rhythmic, quietly funny, this is slow fiction for readers of Nicholson Baker's microscopic gaze and Rachel Cusk's surgical silences. A studio apartment becomes a cathedral of small, perfect failures, and the pale-gray wool cuff-thin now, almost translucent-becomes a rosary for the unplayable.

One forty-seven a.m. The refrigerator hum has stopped. The night waits. The sweater waits. Morning will begin the measurement again.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PublishDrive
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 6610001099190
• Artikelnr.: 75862302