Outline A Novel Reinier de Graaf for fifty years and more

for fifty years and more

A book about beautiful societies founded on theft and treachery

It is cold enough to crack stones

but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born

Outline A Novel Reinier de Graaf for fifty years and moreA novel about writing and talking, self effacement and self expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form. A woman arrives in Athens in the height of the summer to teach a writing course. Once there, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the