Speaking to No. 4

By Alta Ifland

From America to France and Eastern Europe to Japan, this quest for a woman who has disappeared is a psychological mystery and an architectural odyssey in one.

Where is Alma? A future husband--No. 4--is desperately seeking his fianc?e, who has disappeared. To locate her, he is interviewing her three former husbands, her sister, and ex sister-in-law. Could she be hiding in a French monastery? A Japanese shukubo (temple lodging)? Or maybe she is the victim of a belief in a Balkan creation myth?

Written in six voices that come together in a seamless and often comical narrative, Speaking to No. 4 is both a meditation on our construction of space and a psychological mystery that takes us from France to Boston, and from Budapest to Japan. As husband No. 3, the Architect, says to husband-to-be No. 4, "Think of Japanese space as a novel in which the main character is absent."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1734537973
• ISBN13: 9781734537970
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: New Europe Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"