(Hardback)

Is it better to burn out than to fade away In this sinuous meditation on passion, youth and guilt, a man looks back over twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria. They both had tickets to Nirvana in 1993, the only gig the band ever played in Brazil. But he was on military service and failed to join her.

(Paperback)

Beautiful and brave, Michel Laubs novel asks the most basic and yet most complex questions about history and identity, exploring what stories we choose to tell about ourselves and how we become the people we are.

Michel Laub's next book, A Poison Apple, will be published on 6th July 2017.