Mortal Divide

Second-Hand

Excellent condition

Mortal Divide is "autofiction", a self-denying narrative that highlights the rival clarities of document and memoir.

Here document is given emotional resonance, while memoir takes on an extra dimension through the interplay of fictional characters.

A notional murder plot is interrupted by a special inquisitor, Yiorgos, who forces the narrator, George, to confront the awkward truths about his relationship to women, the prison-house of identity and to writing itself.

En route to his Levantine past are beautifully rendered evocations of place. Eros and Thanatos go head-to-head at every turn of the page.

In sparkling prose that has poetry's power of implication in a confined space, George Alexsander meditates on how chance is indistinguishable from destiny, and on the way the dead become espaliers for the living.