Iyer Lars - My Weil - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: My Weil follows a group of twenty - something Ph D students of the new - fangled subject Disaster Studies at an inferior university in Manchester the post - industrial city of so much great music and culture. They're working class by turns underconfident and grandiose (especially when they drink) and are reconciled to never finishing their dissertations or finding academic jobs. And they're working together on a film through which they're trying to make sense of their lives in Manchester and in particular to the Ees a mysterious patch of countryside that appears to have supernatural qualities. Into their midst arrives Simone Weil a Ph D student a version of the twentieth century philosopher who becomes the unlikely star of their film. Simone is devout ascetic intensely serious and busy with risky charity work with the homeless. Valentine hustler - philosopher recognises Simone as a fellow would - be saint. But Gita Indian posh - girl is suspicious: what's with Simone's nun - shoes? And Marcie the leader of the pack is too busy with her current infatuation nicknamed Ultimate Destruction Girl to notice. The narrator Donny who was brought up in care and is psychologically fragile and deeply disturbed by the poverty of his adopted city gradually falls in love with Simone. But will his love be requited? Will Simone be able to save the souls of her new friends and Manchester itself from apocalypse?
Title: My Weil
Author(s): Iyer Lars
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Barcode: 9781685890605
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 8/29/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction