Max van Hepper has spent years perfecting the art of disappearing. A janitor, a stoner, a man who flinches at human touch, he has built a life so small it barely qualifies. Then Ophelia walks in and ruins everything, in the best possible way. What begins as a quietly devastating portrait of loneliness and tentative love takes a sharp left turn into the cosmic and the conspiratorial, as Max discovers he has been chosen for something he cannot begin to comprehend.
Part love story, part existential mystery, part genuinely unhinged science fiction, Fingernail Moon defies easy categorisation. It is a book about grief and connection, about mothers and sons, about the terrifying vastness of space and the even more terrifying smallness of a human heart. Kees Alexis de Koster's debut novel is unlike anything you have read before.
