The Nostalgia That Never Was

The Nostalgia That Never Was

Rhys Hughes

Publication
January 2019

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About the Book

Marco Polo is travelling again in the service of Kublai Khan but this time he wanders off the path and ends up in an unknown part of the world.

In his solitude he becomes an emperor of dreams. The ghosts of prehistory visit him, and the phantoms of later ages and the future too. He even finds himself in the unexpected position of haunting himself.

Only his very last spectral guest can know everything that is essential, and that last guest may well be you, the reader.

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Rhys Hughes

Rhys Henry Hughes (born 1966) is a Welsh writer and essayist. Born in Cardiff, Hughes is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences, which include Italo Calvino, Milorad Pavić, Jorge Luis Borges, Stanisław Lem, Flann O'Brien, Felipe Alfau, Donald Barthelme and Jack Vance. Much of his work is of a…

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