Gemini

Jean and Paul are identical twins. Outsiders even their parents cannot tell them apart and call them Jean-Paul. The mysterious bond between them excludes all others; they speak their own language; they are one perfectly harmonious unit; they are in all innocence lovers.For Paul this unity is paradise but as they grow up Jean rebels against it. He takes a mistress and deserts his brother but Paul sets out to follow him in a pilgrimage that leads all around the world through places that reflect their separation-the mirrored halls of Venice the Zen gardens of Japan the newly divided city of Berlin. The exquisite love story of Jean-Paul is set against the ugliness and pain of human existence. Gemini is a novel of extraordinary proportions intricate images and profound thought in which Michel Tournier tells his fascinating story with an irresistible humor.