Chemist Redlaw is haunted, quite literally, by his own grief — until a spectral double offers him a devastating gift: the power to forget every wrong and sorrow he has ever known, and to pass that same forgetting on to everyone he meets. What begins as mercy curdles into something far darker, as those around him lose not just their pain but the compassion built from having felt it. Dickens's last and strangest Christmas book is a haunting meditation on memory, suffering, and why some things should never be erased — criminally overlooked next to A Christmas Carol.
Chemist Redlaw is haunted, quite literally, by his own grief — until a spectral double offers him a devastating gift: the power to forget every wrong and sorrow he has ever known, and to pass that same forgetting on to everyone he meets. What begins as mercy curdles into something far darker, as those around him lose not just their pain but the compassion built from having felt it. Dickens's last and strangest Christmas book is a haunting meditation on memory, suffering, and why some things should never be erased — criminally overlooked next to A Christmas Carol.
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) leefde het grootste deel van zijn leven in Londen. Hij had al veel korte verhalen gepubliceerd toen hij beroemd werd met The Posthumus Papers of the Pickwick Club, dat eerst als feuilleton verscheen. Daarna volgden onder meer Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities en David Copperfield. Hij is beroemd geworden vanwege zijn zogenaamde Dickensiaanse karakters en om zijn zorgvuldige intriges en expressieve stijl.
