Bar Flaubert

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Arcadia Books, 2007 - Fiction - 287 pages
A journey full of love, denial and danger, where fiction is not that distant from reality. The answers will be found at Bar Flaubert. One man's quest to discover and understand the driving force behind an aspiring novelist who's written words seem to echo his innermost thoughts. Both a search for identity and an intriguing family saga, this tale follows the journey-filled with love, denial, and danger-undertaken by a young man who tries to discover why a novel by an aspiring writer seems to echo his own innermost thoughts. In Barcelona, Berlin, and Florence, he traces his Greek family's many connections and at last uncovers a mysterious ancestor who links together the strands of his investigation. Readers are taken on a journey where fiction is not that distant from reality.

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Alexis Stamatis is an award-winning poet and novelist. Arcadia published his debut novel, The Seventh Elephant, in 2000, while Bar Flaubert has been published in a number of European languages. He lives in Athens.

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