Name: First person, Hidden
SKU: 68921191
Price: 13.21 EUR
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Author: Shai, Ian
ISBN: 9798191107714

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First person, Hidden

Shai, Ian (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Synopsis "First person, Hidden"

At sixty, a man is asked to say a few words at his birthday dinner. It should be simple: thank the family, make a joke about age, speak about love, health, and gratitude. Instead, he opens an old notebook and begins writing about everything he has never managed to say. From childhood isolation and first love to marriage, fatherhood, work, aging parents, and the quiet departure of grown children, he looks back on a life filled with people, responsibility, and affection, yet marked by a loneliness that was often invisible even to him. He has been a husband, father, son, friend, and colleague. He has been needed, trusted, and loved. But beneath each role lives the same hidden question: how can a person be surrounded by love and still feel unseen? First person, Hidden is an intimate literary novel about emotional distance, memory, family, and the private selves we protect from the people closest to us. Told with restraint, tenderness, and quiet honesty, it explores the small moments in which a life is truly revealed. For readers drawn to reflective, character-driven fiction about loneliness, marriage, parenthood, aging, and the words that arrive too late.