Visit the English bookshop Librairie Masséna Around the World (58 Rue Gioffredo) in Nice, France on Saturday 9th November from 5pm to 7pm when author Jorge Armenteros (Fiction, June 2012) will be signing copies of his latest book – The Curvature of an Absence.

At the edge of a vanishing sea and under the light of a fading sun, two writers struggle to understand the sudden absence of affective and natural elements from their lives. As they seek a beautiful but rather elusive presence, they are forced to confront that which is no longer there. To unravel the mysterious absences, they embark on the improbable project of writing a book. Their erratic journey produces a book that reveals nothing and everything, but above all, that reflects the ardent light of a nascent understanding.

Jorge Armenteros was born in 1961 in Havana. Persecuted by the regime, his family sought asylum as political refugees in Madrid. Soon after, the USA granted his family entry and they transitioned through Tampa before settling in Puerto Rico. He was the first student in his school to be accepted to Harvard University. There he took several courses in Spanish and Latin American Literature while completing his biomedical engineering degree. Literature, nonetheless, was breathing inside of him. So, he decided to pursue an MFA in creative writing at Lesley University in Cambridge. The Curvature of an Absence is his seventh novel.