Sam's Orchid: A moral tale of beauty, sex, love, and the movies

A moral tale of beauty, sex, love, and the movies

Between fiction and memory lies the story of Sam’s Orchid—a novel that moves effortlessly through time, desire, and the uncertain border between art and life.

Péter, a disillusioned intellectual, becomes captivated by Sam, a mysterious young actress whose beauty and vulnerability seem both real and imagined. Through Péter’s pursuit of meaning and Sam’s search for freedom, Soha explores how cinema shapes our dreams, our loves, and even our sense of self.

Told with wit, sensuality, and a distinctly European elegance, Sam’s Orchid is at once a meditation on love and a mirror held up to the movies that define a generation. Its companion epilogue, "Georges Cardona and the Enigma of the Stolen Movie," blurs the line between autobiography and film history, unearthing a forgotten scandal that echoes through the story we’ve just read.

With its lush prose and hypnotic structure, Sam’s Orchid is a haunting reflection on obsession, memory, and the way art (and love) can both illuminate and deceive.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DANIEL SOHA was born in Aix-en-Provence, France, and has lived and worked around the world as a diplomat, cultural director, and translator. A two-time Trillium Book Prize finalist and winner of the Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen Prize, he now lives in London, Ontario, after two decades in New York, Paris, Singapore, and Toronto.

Softcover, 6x9

ISBN 9781771618724