A story told orally in a hotel bar, between two strangers – an unknown man and an unknown woman – in the afternoon hours, in New York City in the early 1950s. "In Love" is one of those rare cases: a one-of-a-kind work by a completely forgotten writer, rediscovered fifty years later in the archives of the English publisher "Peter Owen". Then, quickly, the book is translated into many languages and is revived. A seemingly simple book, a love story told in the voice of a man in love, lonely, lost in the maze of his infatuation with a woman, who is also in love. Urban setting, tension, pain, mystery, deals, jealousy. The book becomes increasingly intense, the breaths shorten with the beating of the heart. The secret of the charm of "In Love" stems from its precise melody, from the very personal wording of the contents, as if we were trapped inside a work by Thelonious Monk or a film by Rossellini or Samuel Fuller. "Nine Souls" invites you to meet a writer who sheds a literary light on those who meet him. "A small masterpiece." (Elizabeth Bowen, the renowned Irish-English writer) "Rarely have I had the opportunity to see such a clear and vivid description of the disintegration of a relationship, with all the petty and banal details that go with it. This is a painful, fresh, incredibly beautiful book that will stay with you." (Zaidi, A. Stein)