Absolute Truth, For Beginners, is a coming-of-age story – and a love story – of a different kind which tells the story of twenty-something Elisa who falls madly and desperately in love with a famous female mathematician thirty-two years her senior. The novel is a chronicle of their roller-coaster-like affair, and follows Elisa thoughts and sentiments as she comes to terms with many big and small truths about life.
Absolute Truth, For
Beginners which is due for publishing in December will be Katarina's second novel following the success of her debut novel "Witchcraft Couture" which was released last year.
About The Book
Absolute Truth, For Beginners
Elisa Mancini is a Nobody. Painfully insecure, more
at ease with books than with people, at twenty-three she’s a university dropout
living at her aunt’s, drifting from one day to another, and waiting for something
big to happen. Judith Shapiro is a Somebody. Arrogant and
eccentric, she’s a superstar of mathematics, the subject of scientific
articles, and the undisputed ruler of the world around her.
In a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, Elisa
falls madly in love with Judith Shapiro. For sixty-eight days she is the
mistress of an internationally acclaimed mathematician.
But loving Judith Shapiro is like running a marathon
in a war zone. As days pass, Elisa’s wild infatuation takes on a suicidal bent,
and the world around her starts to go to pieces. Just as everything is about to
blow up, the moment of truth comes.
Absolute Truth, for Beginners is a story about
truthtruth, time and love. Or about identity, positive nursing, degrees of
happiness, Baroque art, scientific theories, homosexual lovemaking, arrogant
television producers, and becoming who you really are.
About the Author
Katarina West is the author of Witchcraft Couture,
her debut novel. She was born in Helsinki, Finland, into a bilingual family
that in addition to humans consisted of dogs, cats, horses, guinea pigs,
canaries, rabbits and – thanks to her biology teacher mother – stuffed owls and
squirrels.
She spent time travelling in Africa, Asia and Latin
America, and went on to study at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London and
the European University Institute in Florence, where she completed a PhD in
political science and published a book based on it, Agents of Altruism.
During
those student years she started work as a journalist, and continued writing for
various Finnish magazines and newspapers for over ten years, writing on various
topics from current events and humanitarian issues to celebrity interviews and
short stories. She also briefly worked as a university lecturer on humanitarian
issues in Northern Italy.
Katarina lives in an old farmhouse in Chianti with
her husband and son and when not writing, she is fully immersed in Tuscan
country life, from jam-making and olive-picking to tractor maintenance.
You can visit her website at
http://www.katarinawest.com, read her blog at
http://www.katarinawest.com/things_I_know_about_life and follow her on
Facebook, Goodreads and Twitter @WestKatarina
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