Hugo Van Bever 
When Death Does Not Part 
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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.

O autorze

Hugo Van Bever (1953) was born in Belgium (Wetteren) but is now living in Singapore since 2002, where he teaches at National University Singapore (NUS), in the department of Pediatrics. Teaching and research are his passion, but literature and writing are his hobby. Since childhood he has been writing poetry and stories. It was under the influence of his friends that he started publishing. In 2010 he published his first novel: “A Sweet Double Murder” (Authorhouse). “When Death Does Not Part” is his second novel. Both novels are part of a trilogy: “Darkness of Mind” which will be published in 2012, and of which part 3 is now (2011) intensively “under construction”.