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Madame Chartreuse Sweet 66's: 20 Cigarettes of Oriental Tobacco, equal parts opium, papaya, and human soul

Jp Hugo Vargas

Madame Chartreuse Sweet 66's tells the story of unique and magical characters in a small group of dream-like deserted islands. The journey our strange subject embarks on is one where he must try to remember a murky and mysterious past. He must find redemption, tell stories, and deal with characters that represent his past triumphs, sins, regrets, and his personal story that once existed. The novel is not an adventure in terms of heroes vanquishing evil, finding fantastic treasures, or saving humanity. It is a journey bound in magical realism, mythology, and dreams, in which a man searches for what he once was, what he should be, for friendship and love; and to explore a world that used to be through magic and dreams.






Book Details

  • Publisher: Socrates Publishing and Media LLC.
  • Publish Date: Sep 26th, 2021
  • Pages: 230
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0003
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.25in - 0.52in - 0.59lb
  • EAN: 9780578955018
  • Categories: LiteraryMagical Realism

About the Author

Vargas, Jp Hugo: - JP Hugo Vargas is an established film photographer and professor/instructor of English language and writing. He has worked as a feature writer for most every Connecticut periodical; is a sought-after personnel consultant; has conducted ethnographic research documenting the musical form and voices of gauchos in Argentina; worked in conflict transformation in Eastern Africa, and has studied as many disparate topics that were available to him. He finds power in language and self-directed study. Helping our collective community is a desire that he works towards; however, since interacting with the trauma of others seems to have become overwhelming, he has pledged a tithe of the funds of his creative work towards those vulnerable forgotten peoples. He enjoys copious stiff whiskies and soda, cigarettes, dangerous adventures, and occasional bouts of absurdity whenever possible. He is Argentine-American, kind, fair, and a madman; hoping only one day to be a good man.

Praise for this book

"At once disturbing and uplifting, Madame Chartreuse is an intimate and personal journey of philosophy clad by an undersized fig leaf of grand fantasy. While the overall story arc intrigues, the true beauty of this book resides in the artful use of sentences and phrasing, generously sprinkled throughout, that should be read two, three, four times, slowly, for full appreciation."

J. R. DiGenova -



"Wholly original and ambitious."

Julia Livshin - Literary Agent