Series / Reading order
Leo can describe intimacy more easily than he can sustain it. These four English-language novels follow a writer through summer journeys, artistic work, desire and the demands of being present for other people. The first book moves from Vienna and northern Italy to the Riviera; the second introduces a Valmont Foundation residency and Sofia Valmont. The third turns to ordinary responsibilities in London, while the fourth examines the distance between understanding love and living it. Read by volume number rather than the order of publication dates.
Edition languages: English.
Book 1
A Novel of Summer and Silence
Edition language: English
Writer Leo travels from Vienna and northern Italy to the Riviera during a decisive summer. His understanding of love and intimacy collides with his reluctance to stay when fatherhood and responsibility demand his presence.
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Book 2
A Novel of Desire and Distance
Edition language: English
During a Valmont Foundation residency, Leo becomes involved with Sofia Valmont. Their journey through Rome, Capri, Mallorca, Paris, London and Venice exposes the personal and professional costs of desire, artistic freedom and the stories he tells about other people.
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Book 3
A Novel of Return and Consequence
Edition language: English
Back in London, writer Leo Varga faces the ordinary demands of fatherhood, from the school gate to a football match in the rain, while Sofia builds a life of her own. A literary novel about intimacy, a son who has learned to expect little, and the quiet question of whether everyday acts can change a man after years of absence.
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Book 4
A Novel of Witness and Release
Edition language: English
A Mediterranean literary romance about Leo, a forty-three-year-old writer whose freedom and success conceal a growing distance from the people closest to him. Across hotels, coastal roads and summer encounters, he confronts the difference between understanding love and living it.
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