The Serpent

<p><strong>An old man living at the height of his powers of recall and memory tells the story of his life on the day of his death from the vantage point on a hill above the village where he was born.</strong></p><p>Quietly narrated and yet raging with will and the passion of youth, this is a novel about fathers and sons, hope and hope’s death, and how we might live in the world before leaving it. In the company of such masterpieces as Seethaler’s <em>A Whole Life</em> and Tolstoy’s <em>The Death of Ivan Ilyich</em>.</p><p>A wildly immersive story, <em>The Serpent</em> will grip the reader from the outset and is a provocative and an-putdownable study of what it is to be human.</p>