The Loose Pages · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.
THE ORIGINAL BOOKS ↓The Loose Pages · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.
On the cover of The Contagion, the motif is identified as “The Loose Pages.” An entire town remembers people who never existed.
On the cover of The Country Without War, the motif is identified as “The document.” A refugee describes a Syria where the war never happened. The officer questioning him recognizes the details.
The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.
Cycles, Series & AnthologyIn Belvaux-sur-Rive, the absent have names. Not birth certificates. Nora Valette knows how to put a room, a register, a calendar in order. Nothing prepares her for a town whose inhabitants remember people who never existed. An empty chair becomes a sign. One private story calls forth another. Soon doubt itself looks suspicious.
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Archives, history & recorded memoryNadim describes a Syria where the war never happened. The man questioning him recognizes the details. In Hamburg, Nadim Darwish must recount a life that does not fit the accepted history. The places are familiar, the dates diverge, and his memories refuse to fit the available categories. His account could pass for invention—if parts of it did not also disturb the man listening.
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