Absinth
2016
First Published
3.85
Average Rating
200
Number of Pages
In Absinth, you’ll meet three main characters trying to figure out their life on the backdrop of the upcoming Iris, a fortune-teller who cannot see not the future but weirdly anachronistic versions of the past; Sid Saperstein, a shameless huckster chosen to publish a sacred manuscript whose message will shake heaven and earth alike; Hermes, the Greek messenger god, dispatched by Zeus to sound out his fellow deities, still smarting from the licking they took two thousand years ago, on how best to take advantage of the coming changes, whatever they may be. And also God Himself, whose enigmatic voice addresses us throughout the novel in the contemporary koans of advertising lingo.
Avg Rating
3.85
Number of Ratings
20
5 STARS
35%
4 STARS
25%
3 STARS
35%
2 STARS
0%
1 STARS
5%
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Author
Seb Doubinsky
Author · 7 books
I was born in Paris, in 1963, right in the middle of a western movie, of which my parents never saw the end. I have thereafter split my life between France and the USA, having spent most of my early childhood in Syracuse, and Seattle. After some studies, a lot of wandering and a few strange jobs, I have finally found myself teaching French literature in Denmark, where I have been living since 2007.
