Ningú aprecia tant la vida com els morts. A Lisboa, un home es troba a la seva mare asseguda en un banc rient mentre observa una nena jugant. En el mercat de Cracòvia reconeix a en Ken, una de les figures més importants de la seva infància i que no veu des
de que en Ken tenia 65 anys, o sigui 40 anys enrere. Una novel·la que viatja per Europa i per els subtils límits entre la realitat i la ficció.
No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl. She has been dead for fifteen years. In Krakow market he recognises Ken, his passeur, the most important person in his life between the ages of eleven and seventeen. They last met when Ken was sixty-five - forty years ago. The number of lives that enter any one life is incalculable. In this nomadic and playful book which travels through fictions across Europe, seemingly disparate stories reveal themselves to be linked, mislaid objects find their place and sensual memories penetrate the present.
