When Death Does Not Part: Na

By Hugo van Bever

After ten years at a psychiatric institute, Thomas, a fifty-year-old teacher, returns to Florence in search of the truth. Retracing the steps he took with his young lover Irena, he learns who she really was. As similarities to Verdis opera Rigoletto haunt the pages, Thomas confesses what happened between them in a desperate attempt to purify his soul, find peace of mind, and love. Unable to accept the truth and its horrifying implications Thomas is doomed to relive his past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jul 28, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456788018

Hugo van Bever

Born in Wetteren, Belgium (1953), Hugo Van Bever lives in Singapore, where he teaches at the National University Singapore (NUS) in the Department of Pediatrics. Teaching and clinical research are his vocation, but literature and writing are his passion. Hugo Van Bever has been writing poetry and fiction since childhood, and it was with the gentle nudge of friends that he finally began publishing in 2010. His debut novel A Sweet Double Murder was followed by When Death Does Not Part in 2011, and On My Father’s Bike in 2012. The three novels create a trilogy, Darkness Of Mind, which explores the deepest and darkest corners of the human mind and soul.

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