Sam's Orchid - Daniel Soha

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Résumé :
A moral tale of beauty, sex, love, and the movies. Between fiction and memory lies the story of Sam's Orchid-- a novel that moves effortlessly through time, desire, and the uncertain border between art and life. P? ter, a disillusioned intellectual, becomes captivated by Sam, a mysterious young actress whose beauty and vulnerability seem both real and imagined. Through P? ter's pursuit of meaning and Sam's search for freedom, Soha explores how cinema shapes our dreams, our loves, and even our sense of self. Told with wit, sensuality, and a distinctly European elegance, Sam's Orchid is at once a meditation on love and a mirror held up to the movies that define a generation. Its companion epilogue, Georges Cardona and the Enigma of the Stolen Movie, blurs the line between autobiography and film history, unearthing a forgotten scandal that echoes through the story we've just read. With its lush prose and hypnotic structure, Sam's Orchid is a haunting reflection on obsession, memory, and the way art (and love) can both illuminate and deceive....

Biographie:
DANIEL SOHA lived and studied in France until his mid-twenties, holds two Master's degrees in Anglo-American studies and a Masters of Education from the University of Aix-Marseille. He has had an international career as a diplomat, a director of cultural organizations, a translator, has worked for the Alliance Fran? aise, the French government, the Toronto French School, and the French Library and Cultural Center in Boston. Over a span of twenty years he has lived in New York, Paris, Singapore, Boston, and Toronto, where still resides....