Absence by Quincy, Issa
Absence by Quincy, Issa

Absence

"Through its archive of narratives nestled within narratives, this exquisite novel creates a beguiling soundscape of echoes...
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Author: Issa Quincy
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Absence by Quincy, Issa

Absence

$27.45
Absence by Quincy, Issa

Absence

$27.45
Author: Issa Quincy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Through its archive of narratives nestled within narratives, this exquisite novel creates a beguiling soundscape of echoes and murmurs that reverberates in the mind long after the reading. In lucid, captivating prose, Issa Quincy constructs a palimpsest composed of the fractals and losses that define the numberless strata of the past. Recalling the novels of W. G. Sebald and the films of Chris Marker, Absence is a mournful and luminous meditation on the work of remembering."

--Christine Lai, author of Landscapes

Haunting and atmospheric, Issa Quincy's Absence is an indelible nesting doll of human impression and memory.

As a child, an unnamed narrator's mother reads to him a poem. Throughout his life, the poem reappears mysteriously, in the affecting life experiences of others as they are recounted to him. An eccentric and beloved schoolteacher leaves behind a dark secret after his death. An elderly woman returns to the same hotel on the Tunisian coast every year as an act of remembrance for a disappeared brother. The son of a wealthy Indian businessman, the pariah of his family, finds solidarity and the distant pang of freedom within the letters of an estranged Aunt.

As we follow characters on their journeys of self-discovery through the jungle of Thailand, as a child in the British countryside, or as an aging doctor on the island of Cyprus, Absence evocatively builds a compassionate symphony of nostalgia, attuned to the drama of everyday and the phantoms that linger with us. Issa Quincy has constructed a transcendent portrait of humanity, deftly illuminating those memories that forever bind us to one another.

Author: Issa Quincy
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: 07/15/2025
Pages: 166
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781953387998


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/08/2025

About the Author
Quincy, Issa: -

Issa Quincy is a British writer. He spent spent several years working as a film archivist. His poetry has appeared in The London Magazine and been anthologised by New Rivers Press. His fiction has appeared in Transition Magazine and The Kenyon Review. Absence is his first novel. He is currently based in New York City.

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