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A Poison Apple

In this sinuous meditation on passion, youth and guilt, a man looks back over twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria.In 1993 while he`s undertaking military service, his best friend accompanies Valeria to a Nirvana gig in his absence – a night he feels has defined his entire adult life. Entwining this most personal story with seminal events of the 1990s, A Poison Apple circles back to some of the biggest questions: what is a life worth? What does it mean to really commit to living? And can we ever break free of the past?A mature, beautiful, thought-provoking novel that shows Michel Laub at his mesmeric best.