Mark Haber Books in Order

Obsessed with writing a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt leaves his Croatian village to find a reclusive philosopher in South America. Accompanied by his ailing scribe, he turns the search into a feverish journey shaped by vanity, philosophy and colonial ambition.

After decades of estrangement, an art critic is summoned to his former friend’s deathbed in Berlin. During the flight, he revisits their shared obsession with a Renaissance painting, the careers it established and the bitter disagreement that destroyed their friendship.

Following his wife’s death, a retired professor tries to resume his long-planned book about Montaigne. Memories, technology and his son’s musical ambitions repeatedly interrupt him, turning a scholarly project into a spiraling reckoning with grief, art and frustrated aspiration.

Ruling a remote European country, Gerard Desacroux IV longs to reunite with Ada, a woman from his Parisian past. Her impending visit sets his romantic fixation against assassination attempts, public unrest and the inconvenient existence of her wealthy husband.