A Short Stay in Hell

Charlotte says about A Short Stay In Hell:
"If you think you’ve grasped eternity, think again. Based on Jorge Luis Borges’s 1941 short story, A Short Stay In Hell follows one man who finds himself lost to an eternity in an infinite library with a scope that spans millennia, and where freedom is only granted if he finds his life story on its shelves. Philosophical, confronting, and strangely fun, this is a novella that will stay with me for a while (but hopefully not an eternity!)"

A man is cast by an unfamiliar God into a vast, incomprehensible Hell - a labyrinth library of books containing the stories of every life ever lived.

His only way out is to find the single book that tells his own story. But along the seemingly infinite shelves lies every possible combination of letters. Trapped within this maze of meaninglessness, the absurdity of existence becomes impossible to ignore.

A life-changing, existential novella, Steven L. Peck's modern classic explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.

Author: Peck, Steven L.
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 21 May 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback / softback | 112 pages
128 x 198 x 12 | 86g