I Met My Dead Grandpa: Love, Loss and the Space Between

I Met My Dead Grandpa by Cenk Sözen is a philosophical, surreal and emotionally powerful novella about love, loss, memory, identity and the strange border between life and death.The story follows Albert Shuller, a German biochemistry researcher living near Cambridge, as he prepares for a joyful trip to Paris with his beloved Helen and his friends James and Gabriel. Albert plans to propose to Helen, and the journey begins with humour, cultural conversation and ordinary human warmth during a taxi ride driven by Abdulkerim, a Turkish driver with a rich memory, sharp wit and deep reflections on life.The ordinary journey suddenly turns into a mysterious metaphysical experience. Albert, Helen, James, Gabriel, Abdulkerim and a Chinese student named Chun find themselves on a strange island in an endless turquoise sea. There, reality loses its normal rules. They encounter symbolic animals, mythological references, historical memories, religious imagery, philosophical debates and scenes that appear to come from war, mythology and dreams. The group tries to understand whether they are dead, dreaming, trapped in another world or waiting for judgement.'I Met My Dead Grandpa' combines tragedy, humour, fantasy, history and philosophy. It moves from a simple taxi journey to a symbolic afterlife-like space, and then back to the harsh reality of survival. The book explores how ordinary lives are shaped by forgotten wars, how grief changes human perception, and how storytelling itself becomes a way of holding on to love, memory and meaning.Publisher: bookpublishing.linguistscollective.info

Pagina's: 117, Paperback, Linguists Collective and Cambridge ITC Book Publishing