The feeling of the end

Teenager Tony Webster withdraws from a love affair he had with Veronica, only to find her immediately dating his best friend, as they sent him a message asking him to understand the matter. So he replied to their message, then lived forty years carefree, relaxed, until he became a middle-aged man: married, had children, and retired from his job. Then he receives a message that destroys all those long years of his life; it brings him back to a relationship he completely forgot, opening a door that can only be described as leading to the hell of regret. He left behind things that grew in his absence and wilded like forest trees, and he must return to confront them. In a literary style described as postmodern, presented by one of the great contemporary English writers, we read a philosophical novel questioning concepts of time, memory, and history: Is the search for self an ongoing journey? And does maturity and aging not promise comfort and a happy life as everyone thinks? The novel says: "History is not the lies of the victors; it is closer to the memories of the survivors: those who did not win, and did not lose."