![]() ![]() ![]() Becoming a storyteller, a writer, is what I've always wanted.”īesides writing and researching in dusty old archives, on the lookout for a mystery to put into his next story, Robert enjoys classical music and long walks in the country. ![]() And I've always loved the one as much as the other. “In Germany,” he says, “we use the same word for story and history. For the way he manages to make the past come alive, as if he himself lived as a medieval knight, his inventive fans have given him the nickname “Sir Rob.” All of his stories are characterized by his very own brand of humor that has gained him a diverse readership ranging from teenagers to retired grandmothers.įor Robert, becoming a writer followed naturally from his interest in history. Robert Thier is a German historian, lover of old books and award-winning writer, whose novels and stories encompass the historical, satirical, and fantastical. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I had what might truly be called an object in life: to be a reformer of the world … This did very well for several years, during which the general improvement going on in the world and the idea of myself as engaged with others in struggling to promote it, seemed enough to fill up an interesting and animated existence. Let your self-consciousness, your scrutiny, your self-interrogation, exhaust themselves on that and if otherwise fortunately circumstanced you will inhale happiness with the air you breathe, without dwelling on it or thinking about it, without either forestalling it in imagination, or putting it to flight by fatal questioning.” The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. They will not bear a scrutinizing examination. Once make them so, and they are immediately felt to be insufficient. The enjoyments of life (such was now my theory) are sufficient to make it a pleasant thing, when they are taken en passant, without being made a principal object. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. “Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. ![]() ![]() Assuming that Fel is the resurrection of a prior generation’s lost lover, the Nomeolvideses take him in when his memories surface, they must face dark truths about their history and home. The girls perform a ritual that’s intended to protect her, but it instead summons Fel, a strangely dressed boy who can’t recall his past. The women strive for normalcy, channeling their magic into the elaborate gardens at La Pradera estate and forsaking suitors before they can disappear, but then Estrella Nomeolvides and her four cousins all fall for La Pradera’s vivacious owner, Bay Briar. ![]() They’re also cursed: whenever they fall in love, the object of their affection vanishes. Nomeolvides women have the power to conjure flowers. ![]() ![]() Ryusei’s older sister, Fumi, is the owner of an art studio she takes Miwako under her wing for a time before Miwako eventually leaves Tokyo behind. ![]() Less than a year before her death, however, Miwako met Ryusei, a lovestruck young man who becomes a dear friend to Miwako, while remaining hopeful for more. Self-assured, thick-skinned, and consciously distant from other people, she only had one true friend: Chie. Miwako Sumida was a student at Waseda University. Our three protagonists – Ryusei, Chie, and Fumi – are left to pick up the pieces of their own lives, recently shattered by the death of their friend. ![]() While working at a mountain retreat, she took a ladder into the forest and hanged herself from a large tree. The titular Miwako Sumida is the axel around which this wheel of complex characters spins, each one taking a turn to narrate the story and impress upon us the kind of person Miwako Sumida was. Set during the shift from 80s to 90s Tokyo, as Japan’s great economic bubble is getting ready to burst, The Perfect World of Miwako Sumidatraces the lives of a handful of lovable but flawed young women and men. ![]() |