The Blindness of the Unseen

By Internecio Pulicorum

A haunting, postmodern retelling of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex , set against the scarred backdrop of post-World War II Europe. In the crumbling Marais district of Paris, 1949, Ezra Kohn chain-smokes Marlboros and scribbles fractured confessions in a notebook, a 28-year-old Jewish refugee translator haunted by a dream: a man's throat under his hands, a stolen coat, a snap of cartilage in a snowy DP camp. His mother, Yael, a war-widowed seamstress, stitches survival from salvaged silk in a narrow shop, her trembling hands a lifeline for Ezra and his sisters, Mira and Leah. But when Mira unearths a yellowed letter hinting at a family secret, the past unravels--a non-linear torrent of Warsaw abandonment, ghetto loss, and camp violence--revealing a truth as ancient as it is unbearable: Ezra's not just Yael's son, he's her husband, bound by a trauma-forged marriage neither fully understood until it was too late. Perfect for fans of: Literary fiction, experimental narratives, and historical reimaginings with unrelenting emotional depth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5NQZQB3
• ISBN13: 9798280541580
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 75 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.2" x 5.5"