Love's Perfumes: A Novel

Myrna, a Caribbean environmentalist, meets Arno, a high-ranking Dutch civil servant, at the World Food Summit in the Netherlands. Arno suffers from debilitating insomnia, and Myrna has access to a tradititional technique of sleep therapy that she has learnt from her grandmother. In return for the therapy, Arno offers to be her guide in her journey of discovery through the cities of Europe. The twists and turns that Arnos life takes as the relationship progresses and events unfold shake him out of his stupor and compel him to come to terms with disturbing realities of the past.