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Aled is used to his dad Geraint waxing lyrical about some saint's clifftop lookout; some Greek temple or another hosting a thousand sacred prostitutes; some village near Corinth. Geraint is the county archaeologist, after all. So when travel agent Aled takes a recce trip to that same Peloponnese village, his father is surprised. When Aled fails to return on the eve of his marriage, Geraint becomes alarmed and sets out on his trail. This quest, which is also a pilgrimage, will change all those involved. Relationships - father and youthful son; son and elderly mother; fiances, lovers, colleagues - none are immutable. This novel shows those thresholds of choice, those liminal moments and places where a door may open onto another world, or at the very least, another way of relating to the one we have.

Table of Contents:
Sixteen chapters

About the Author :
Chris Keil is an accomplished linguist and he ran an upland sheep farm for nigh-on twenty years. He has worked as a Brixton schoolteacher and a teacher of English as a foreign language in a number of European countries. He has specialised, nationally, in marketing Welsh lamb in Europe, and academically, in collective memory and representations of the Holocaust. He lectures worldwide and has published on dissonant heritage and traumatic memory at Auschwitz. He lives in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, and currently lectures at Trinity College, Carmarthen. This is his second novel.

Review :
"Evocative... Chris Keil's writing, which is limpid and often arrestingly vivid, has a charged quality that conveys the mysteries pulsing behind the everyday surfaces of things."The Guardian"Hypnotic", Jan Morris'A subtle and intricate meditation on the blurry junctures that separate us from the past, from each other, and finally from ourselves.' Tristan Hughes "I'm enthralled - the spare, precise, resonant language, the deftess with which character and mutual response are bodied forth, the sense of human and mythic hinterland minimally and disturbingly evoked, the sheer metaphysical ambition of the novel." Jim Perrin "Liminal's central enigma is rewarding & human." John M Harrison, uzwi.wordpress.com "This is a literary novel in the modern style. Chris Keil weaves a celtic knot between Wales & Greece, between the past & the present & between what is above & below the surface of our consciousness. The tempo of the work develops the urgency of a crime novel & I read large tracts of the book in single sittings. Mysteries develop and are resolved, wholly or partially, against richly evoked backdrops. A cast of eccentric characters explore themes of philosophy & spirituality. Keil is developing an idiosyncratic style following his exciting first novel 'The French Thing' & I look forward to the next one with interest."www.amazon.com A real sense of mystery is woven around the circumstances of [Aled's] disappearance and the novel takes on the aspect of a detective story... The evocations of the Greek landscape and historical sites are beautifully wrought... a subtle and haunting novel... simultaneously reflective and entertaining; philosophical and dryly humorous." Ceri Shaw, americymru.ning


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780955527210
  • Publisher: Alcemi
  • Publisher Imprint: Alcemi
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 313 gr
  • ISBN-10: 095552721X
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jun 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Returnable: N


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