The Memory of Our Dreams

«Thirty-two-year-old Simon Taieb learned of the death of his friend Frank while standing in the kitchen». Thus begins the hero's journey through the corridors of time, where at every turn the ghosts of childhood rise, with its wars, joys, scars, and its loyalty forever. Thus ends twenty years of very strange, tangled relationships between three completely mismatched people: Simon, Frank, and Clarissa, who was dear to both of them. Virtuously shifting from the past to the present, shuffling the cards dealt to the heroes by fate in different ways, relying on sparse and very precise, recognizable details, Kenten Charlier gives voice to the «voiceless» generation of thirty-year-olds, who cannot express their feelings, are wildly ashamed of romance and pathos, have not managed to grow up and settle down, but have forgotten childhood dreams... And they turn out to be remarkably resilient. Kenten Charlier is almost the same age as his heroes; this is his first novel, unanimously noted by critics and readers for its masterful construction, stylistic rigor, and impeccable capture of the nerve of the times.