Book description
How much of a survivor, in fact, survives? How much must remain
of a survivor for him also to be called a man? You tell me to remember.
All over again. To remember. Perhaps there is nothing left
there,
doctor. Perhaps it is all gone.
Bernardo
Greene is attempting to rebuild his life. Imprisoned and tortured by
Pinochet's regime for introducing his students to political poetry, he
has arrived in Copenhagen at the age of forty-nine, to begin, to begin
again.
Michela Ibsen also seeks a new beginning. She
has survived an abusive marriage and the death of a child, but does not
know whether this makes her strong, or even whole. Her latest boyfriend
is young, vain and dangerously possessive.
Michela's
eyes meet Bernardo's over a cup of coffee in the café across the lake.
During a long Scandinavian summer of endless days and pin-point nights,
these two lost souls begin to heal, to forgive and to trust themselves
to love.
A novel about passion in the wake of loss,
pain in the wake of truth, and salvation in the wake of despair,
In the Company of Angels
is the mesmeric and quietly
devastating masterpiece from internationally celebrated author Thomas E.
Kennedy. Thomas E. Kennedy was born in New York. He has lived in
Copenhagen for over two decades, and has worked, among other things, as
a translator for Copenhagen's Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims.
He is the author of eight novels, as well as several collections of
short stories and essays, and has won numerous awards including the Eric
Hoffer Award, the Pushcart Prize, the O. Henry Prize and the National
Magazine Award. He teaches creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson
University, and is the father of two grown children who live in Denmark.
In the Company of Angels
was first published in Ireland in 2004, as Greene's Summer
, to rapturous critical acclaim. It is one of four novels comprising the
Copenhagen Quartet, and is the first of Kennedy's books to be published
in the UK. Its simultaneous British-American publication by Bloomsbury
marks the arrival of a hitherto undiscovered master.
