How We Dissolve
Not a love story
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Beschreibung
At once tender and obscene, weightless and devastating, this is a story about what we give away in the name of closeness—and whether it’s possible to love someone without vanishing inside them.
A novel about loneliness, longing, and the lines we draw—until they blur.
When Jónsi, a quiet visual artist from the far north, steps into the orbit of Ceel, a dazzling and volatile violin prodigy, his life tilts off-axis. Ceel is brilliance incarnate—beautiful, haunted, adored. And dangerous, in all the softest ways. As their lives entangle against the backdrop of gilded music halls and their undercurrents of decay, Jónsi finds himself swept into a world where intimacy and performance collide, and love becomes indistinguishable from myth.
Told through shimmering fragments of memory, dreamlike interludes, and sudden ruptures of sensuality, How We Dissolve is a meditation on desire and dissonance, identity and art. Between overlit hotel rooms, museum corridors, and nightclub shadows, Jónsi must decide whether what he’s found is salvation—or just another stage set for collapse.
Autor*in
Ava Jansson
Born between Europe and Asia, raised among books and music, Ava Jansson has long wandered between languages, identities and worlds. After studying Russian literature and narratology in Hamburg, they now live in Berlin, exploring queerness, intimacy, and the fragile art of connection.
Themen in »How We Dissolve«
LGBTQ fiction achillean literature psychological fiction queer coming of age queer literature contemporary romance stream of consciousness