The sixth novel from award-winning writer Thomas Trofimuk.Bruce Flynn has long been overwhelmed by his unruly and alarming fear of death. His wife, Pilar, distracts him by telling him drawn-out and convoluted stories, hiding him behind so many twists and turns that even Death itself will not be able to find him. During one such story, while the couple is on holiday in Macon, France, Bruce becomes entirely engrossed in the tabletop as he listens to Pilar. When he lo...

Three lives, one unreliable narrator and the consequences of losing intimacy. This is All a Lie opens with Ray leaving his mistress for the final time. At the bottom of her apartment tower, he answers his phone. It's Nancy, his lover, and she is threatening to jump if he drives away. She wants emotional truth in an arena where everything is a lie. She wants a reason to stay alive and Ray is uniquely unqualified to give her what she wants. Ray's wife, Tulah, loves snow and keeps a snow jour...

有愛之處必有痛。Ubi amor, ibi dolor.只要你能相信我，親愛的讀者，我會盡我所能帶著你跨越這條河。所有橋都是邀請。我只能希望你接受我的邀請。透過這個故事的每一個角色，你會看見星辰影響我們，而非束縛我們。如果巴黎是光之城，那布拉格肯定就是影之城。在像這樣的夜晚，萬物半隱半現，什麼事都有可能。魔法、無聊、做愛、音樂、詩，或根本什麼也沒有。在布拉格舊城邊緣，象離開了動物園，穿過霧中的圍牆，最後來到查理橋畔。而這座超越六百年的橋對你娓娓道來橋畔眾生的寂寞、脆弱與力量。懷抱著作家夢的男人獲得文學獎肯定，卻旋即陷入創作瓶頸，只好日復一日在動物園擔任夜間警衛的工作。他身為心理諮商師妻子熱切的想成為人母，然而男人卻無法相信自己能勝任父親的角色。有著酗酒問題的女孩因為父親突然在異鄉病倒而輾轉來到布拉格，卻在趕往醫院探望的途中搭乘的計程車，意外撞上常在查理橋表演的街頭藝人，隨後又遭逢父親過世的打擊。首席芭蕾舞女伶深受膝痛所苦，同時為自己...

On a beautiful April morning, a man is brought to an insane asylum in contemporary Spain, claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Found in the treacherous Straight of Gibraltar, he is clearly delusional and has suffered a trauma so severe that he has turned away from reality. As he spins the tall tales of adventure and romance of someone who existed in the late fifteenth century, the lonely Nurse Consuela can’t help but be enchanted by his spirit. Who is Columbus? Wher...

A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.He appears out of the sea, washed up naked, in the treacherous Straits of Gibraltar. Seemingly delirious, and claiming to be Christopher Columbus, he is taken to an insane asylum in Seville, where astonishingly he starts to reveal the true story of how he set sail on behalf of the Spanish queen five hundred years ago.Consuela, a nurse at the Institute, is charged with helping him back to reality. She listens to his fan...

Set in Prague and narrated with great panache by the 600-year-old Charles Bridge, this novel begins with an elephant named Sál escaping the Prague Zoo. As the elephant moves through the beautiful Czech city, the lives of the men and women she meets are altered by the encounter. Each character is at a crossroads, and desperately seeking the wisdom they need to wrestle with profound questions—how to live, how to love, who to love, how to heal. And the elephant herself is haunted, as memories...

Found in the treacherous Strait of Gibraltar, a man who answers only to the name of Christopher Columbus is delivered to a mental institution in Sevilla. Nurse Consuela, a lonely young woman searching for love, who listens to his fantastical tales of adventure and romance day after day, tries desperately to make some sense of why this man has been locked up, and to discover his true identity.Simultaneously, Emile Germain, an Interpol officer based in France, receives a memo about a...