In the Company of Angels : A Novel

from msbaba

In the Company of Angles, by Thomas Kennedy, is a challenging work of fiction that delves into some of the most baffling corners of the human condition. It is a novel rife with complex psychological themes concerning love, abuse, healing, torture, domestic violence, infidelity, and abusive govern...

from GCPLreader

What a beautiful novel! Set in modern Copenhagen, In the Company of Angels tells the story of Nardo, a survivor of torture in Pinochet's Chile, and Michela, a Dane who has suffered from domestic violence. Nardo is undergoing treatment to "return to life" while Michela begins to doubt her current ...

from seidchen

Despite its grim subject, this beautiful, haunting novel is a page-turner. Kennedy moves fluidly among the voices of his characters, holding up a prism to reveal the many facets of human suffering and possibilities for redemption. (The psychiatrist Kristensen's is a necessary perspective but also...

from Donna828

Nardo was a dark stranger undergoing psychological treatment in Denmark, land of the blue eyes. He was so damaged by the betrayal and torture from his own people in Chile -- for teaching poetry to middle schoolers of all things -- that now he thought of hunger as optimism and found safety in soli...

from brenzi

In Thomas E. Kennedy's latest novel, the Danish city of Copenhagen provides the canvas upon which the author paints a portrait of love and hate, beauty and ugliness, anger and passivity and, in producing this work of art, his poetic prose reveals an authorial style that absolutely took my breath ...