Melmoth by Sarah Perry
A solitary woman in London, haunted by an accident and the slow unravelling of memory, becomes drawn into a patchwork of testimonies and confessions about a mysterious, ageless figure who grants extra years at the cost of becoming a witness to others' suffering; through interwoven historical vignettes and present-day encounters, the narrative explores guilt, isolation, the corrosive lure of immortality, and the fragile boundary between empathy and complicity in a dark, gothic meditation on human responsibility.
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- 2018
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