No Sholont: The Altruism Paradox, (Paperback)

<b>NO SHOLONT: The Altruism Paradox</b><p>Somewhere on Lark Lane, Liverpool, there is a café with no name on the door. The sign says OPEN. The coffee is adequate. The cat has been on the counter since before the counter was a counter.</p><p>Behind it stands Viktor - a man who remembers enough to function, who built something enormous from grief and precision, and who made a choice at a threshold he can no longer locate.</p><p>The machine in the back room doesn't take you where you want to go. It takes you where you need to be. And the price is always the same: one memory, surrendered at the counter, dissolved into the walls, carried forward in eight pounds of grey fur.</p><p><i>The Altruism Paradox</i> is the second book in the No Sholont series - eleven chapters, eleven arrivals, eleven people carrying what they cannot put down. A salesman who sold forty thousand people a dream he knew was empty. A footballer who wants only to stand in a stadium in 1958 and watch a seventeen-year-old from Três Corações score a goal from the gods. A being from another continuity, navigating by the frequency of a room that permits unresolved things to arrive safely.</p><p>And behind it all: a question Viktor asked before the forgetting took it. A question the Department of Time has named the Altruism Paradox. A question whose answer has been accumulating on the wall for sixteen years.</p><p>The wall holds fifteen items. Together they form one complete human life.</p><p><i>The Altruism Paradox</i> is a novel about grief becoming hospitality. About loss becoming frequency. About the longer route - and why the longer route was never a detour.</p><p>The bell rings half a second late.</p><p>It always does. </p><p>Close the door, </p><p>you're letting the decade in.</p>

• No Sholont: The Altruism Paradox, (Paperback)
• Author: Timothy Alan Bleasdale
• ISBN: 9798183851090
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-23
• Page Count: 182