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Jesse Browner

Biography

Jesse Browner

Jesse Browner is the author of the novels THE UNCERTAIN HOUR and EVERYTHING HAPPENS TODAY, among others, as well as of the memoir HOW DID I GET HERE? He is also the translator of works by Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard, Rainer Maria Rilke, Matthieu Ricard and other French literary masters. He lives in New York City.

Jesse Browner

Books by Jesse Browner

by Jesse Browner - Fiction, Historical Fiction

His family farm and the surrounding community now emptied by war, young Hani embarks on an epic quest – assisted by a brooding yet brilliant donkey – to find his lost sister in the ruins of Troy. Some war stories transcend time and circumstance and so it is with the resourceful and heartbroken Hani, who must employ every bit of intelligence, every scrap of ingenuity and ultimately every ounce of his spirit and humor to withstand the forces of civilization’s collapse. Hani is no ordinary boy, however, and a character unlike any you’ve ever met. His interior world is one of startling depth and complexity. His insights into life, lives and history are fresh. And his hope for survival -- not a given, and in fact, less than likely -- will propel you to the startling conclusion of this brief, elegiac and singular work.