Ben Okri: Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted, Gebunden

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"There are organizations for people who grieve, for alcoholics and other kinds of addicts. But if you've been devastated by the love of your life walking out on you, where the hell do you go? On the 20th anniversary of the day her first husband left her, Viv decides to host an unconventional party for those burned by love. She successfully ropes in her reluctant second husband Alan and their friends Beatrice and Stephen, and when she meets the famed fortuneteller Madame Sosostris--last seen in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and rumored to be the secret to success of 5 prime ministers--she believes she's found the perfect act to headline her masquerade. In a sacred wood in the south of France, the partygoers disguise themselves and wait eagerly for the great clairvoyant, who might be able to mend their broken pasts and brighten their futures"--