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The Laws, by Connie Palmen
€10.00

Quay Books
The Laws is an unconventional love story, a fertile novel of ideas, and a brilliantly conceived story of discovery and self-discovery.
Over a period of seven years, a young philosophy student, Marie Deniet, encounters seven men: an astrologer, an epileptic, a philosopher, a priest, a physicist, an artist, and a psychiatrist.
In her attempt to comprehend the laws these enigmatic loves have chosen to live by, Deniet questions life, love, and the universe in a voyage of self-discovery that sometimes gives her hope, and sometimes leaves her feeling marooned.
Connie Palmen was born in Holland in 1955. The Laws, her debut novel, was originally published in Dutch in 1990 as De wetten.
“The Laws is a triumph not of meaning, but of mystery. This duality gives it a singularity that sweetens and embitters, that spices the tale with the promise of paradox and surprise. It is a bracing fictional debut.” The Independent
Published by George Braziller in 1993. First United States edition.
Good condition with dust jacket.
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