Fr. 29.90

Rousseau's Lost Children

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 26.02.2026

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Paris, 1777. The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau receives a mysterious letter from a foreign visitor, Gavin Mulvany, asking whether the great man will take walks with him. Against his better judgement, Rousseau agrees. Might this strange man, who claims to be from the 21st century, be the true friend that Rousseau has been searching for his whole life? Paris, 2022. Gavin, a middle-aged academic, leaves his husband behind in Ireland to finish a long-delayed biography of Rousseau. While in Paris, he avoids work on his book by instead taking walks with Rousseau himself. As they wander the crowded streets of the eighteenth-century city, Gavin and Rousseau open up about certain past actions that have come to define them. Was Rousseau justified in abandoning his children? Should Gavin be forgiven for the terrible crime he committed to protect a man he once loved? Can talking and walking together lead both Gavin and Rousseau to finally be honest with themselves and their loved ones, and to a better understanding of what love, family, and society really mean? Rousseau''s Lost Children is a thrilling epistolary novel cast across centuries, a bold and illuminating investigation into the boundaries of personal liberty and matters of morality, desire and loyalty.

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Authors Gavin Mccrea, McCrea Gavin
Publisher John Murray
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 26.02.2026
 
EAN 9781529370072
ISBN 978-1-5293-7007-2
No. of pages 336
Subjects BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Biography: philosophy and social sciences

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