A weird story. Not quite sure what to make of it!
Definitely surreal, and unlike any story I’ve read before.
I did find I was trying to make sense of it, wondering if the protagonist was stuck in purgatory, but as the book finished, I don't think that was that was the point.
It’s a good story, and engagingly written, but hard to apply to the real world.
Although the questions that are repeatedly raised about the idea of memory and how these have different meaning to different people was definitely food for thought.
Also worth adding, as surreal as it was, it managed to be equally bleak!
A good read, though not quite suited to the poolside holiday I read it from!
4 Highlights
"If you read a novel to the end, then it’s over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I’d much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever."
He can just forget about tending roses with so many other things to occupy him. Cleaning his grandchildren’s ears or plucking fleas from his cat, all sorts of things."
A heart has no shape, no limits. That’s why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much. It’s much like your memory, in that sense."
If my body were cut up in pieces and those pieces mixed with those of other bodies, and then if someone told me, "Find your left eye," I suppose it would be difficult to do so.
My note: I mean...