Like a lot of good stories, it starts in a bar.
Placido's Beach Bar, the ultimate beach bar - although there is no beach and only certain people let their dreams lead them there. Kim has come to Placido's Bar to wait for Matthew. In different times she came here with Stella. A woman, her lover and her best friend. Matthew has loved her, Stella has healed her. Now they are all Kim has left and she is no longer certain of them.
The people who live here are like Kim, Matthew and Stella: fugitives and dreamers, people looking for pleasure, people who have to get away. Now a man has been killed; he was Stella's husband and Matthew may have been there when he died.
Written with passion and precision, 'Sunset' is a novel of paradoxes and is the most ambitious work yet from a supremely perceptive and compelling modern writer.
