Follow Ezekiel Yusuf Moran, a 99-year old homeopath, synesthete and French Resistance fighter as he recounts his audacious life story to his grandson, Daniel. Ezekiel draws a sensuous, affecting and inspiring picture of life in Provençal France before, during and after World War II. The intimate narrative of his life unfolds, chronicling his childhood and coming of age in Provence, his lost love, his survival of Auschwitz and his odyssey around the world searching for meaning until he finally finds purpose.
What is it Ezekiel finds that finally gives his life meaning again? And what can we learn from this "strange and wonderfully readable book"?
A novel of exquisite shocks and steady control, a beautiful paradox of a book, unsettling and strange and wonderfully readable. -- award-winning Irish author Frank McGuinness
An extraordinary debut. -- award-winning Australian author John Clanchy
-- Similar to Marilynne Robinson's character Reverend Ames in GILEAD, or the spiritual realism of novels by Carlos Castaneda and Ben Okri, Ezekiel reminds us that past pain doesn't always have to be prologue to future sorrows. At times, Fanning's richness of character can be reminiscent of Nabokov, or maybe a mixture of Nabokov and Herman Hesse.
John Fanning was born in Dublin, Ireland. He lives in southern France, where he writes novels and helps other writers and artists create their work at the retreat he co-founded, La Muse. He is the author of the novels Ezekiel, and the forthcoming novels A Brave Man Dead and A Murder of Crows. He is presently writing the second and third novels of what is becoming a cycle, the first of which is "Ezekiel". Visit his site to sign up to his mailing list.
La Muse Books is an independent publisher in the south of France. For an interview with the author or giveaway contact Kerry Eielson at contact@lamusebooks.com
