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Veronika, a twenty-four-year-old girl from Ljubljana, seems to have everything one could wish for: she is young and beautiful, surrounded by young men, has a harmonious family and a job that fulfills her. But there is something missing in her life.
What to do if a man offers a woman wealth, career, fame and love? It's hard to resist — who doesn't want to be better than others these days?
The main character, Jean Makar, is a poor laborer who works on the Paris railway. Through his story, the novel explores the themes of social inequality, the struggle for survival and the influence of the environment on the individual.
Criticism as the main characteristic of Ondaatje's writing emphasizes the successful merging of past and present and local and global themes, as well as a careful analysis of the psyche and intimacy of the individual in the context of social conflicts.
His Lives and Works is the second volume in a series of revised, definitive editions of the horror story collections of Thomas Ligotti.