Fragments

What Remains, Echoes from a Different World

von Titus Herman

144 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In valleys that sleep beneath the mountains, in voices that fade but never fall silent, in memories that blur like fog over the sea-something still lingers.Told in brief, haunting stories, Fragments: What Remains wanders through coal towns, forgotten roads, and refugee camps to uncover what the heart remembers after the mind forgets.A village dog brings comfort to every hand that reaches down.A ghost visits a church that prays with the living and the dead.A girl barters her family's love for the shimmer of a distant light.The collection explores the fragments of memory-moments buried in the silt of time and unearthed decades later, stitched together from the author's childhood in communist Romania and his flight to the West.Blending fact and fiction, these fragments move between lived history and dreamt events, tracing what the imagination preserves, what it distorts, and what it invents to fill the gaps.Every page is a portrait of survival-not grand or heroic, but tender and ordinary. Told in prose as spare as it is lyrical, the collection invites the reader to step inside lives quietly waiting to be found.For anyone who has ever searched the past for meaning, these stories offer a window into what remains.

• ISBN: 9798900015590
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2025
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Booxai