NO SHOLONT

THE ALTRUISM PARADOX

von Timothy Alan Bleasdale

182 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

NO SHOLONT: The Altruism ParadoxSomewhere on Lark Lane, Liverpool, there is a café with no name on the door. The sign says OPEN. The coffee is adequate. The cat has been on the counter since before the counter was a counter.Behind it stands Viktor - a man who remembers enough to function, who built something enormous from grief and precision, and who made a choice at a threshold he can no longer locate.The machine in the back room doesn't take you where you want to go. It takes you where you need to be. And the price is always the same: one memory, surrendered at the counter, dissolved into the walls, carried forward in eight pounds of grey fur.The Altruism Paradox is the second book in the No Sholont series - eleven chapters, eleven arrivals, eleven people carrying what they cannot put down. A salesman who sold forty thousand people a dream he knew was empty. A footballer who wants only to stand in a stadium in 1958 and watch a seventeen-year-old from Três Corações score a goal from the gods. A being from another continuity, navigating by the frequency of a room that permits unresolved things to arrive safely.And behind it all: a question Viktor asked before the forgetting took it. A question the Department of Time has named the Altruism Paradox. A question whose answer has been accumulating on the wall for sixteen years.The wall holds fifteen items. Together they form one complete human life.The Altruism Paradox is a novel about grief becoming hospitality. About loss becoming frequency. About the longer route - and why the longer route was never a detour.The bell rings half a second late.It always does.

Close the door,

you're letting the decade in.