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lisabage's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
This book isn‘t so much a story as a mood. You know that feeling when you‘ve binged too much tv at one time and now just the thought of standing up to get water seems like too much effort? Weird and eerie, written beautifully but with a sense of blasé. Not so much “nightmarish” as many describe it, but dreamlike, in that weird “am I awake or asleep right now” mood. I‘m glad I read it, more glad it was very short.
carsen_russ's review against another edition
3.0
A quick little read full of pastoral and suburban horror
infamint's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
grimalkin's review against another edition
4.0
Preliminary thoughts: A curiously spectral novel that has at its center a "blankness", an emptiness that the reader keeps searching for, even though it is well beyond the reader's grasp. Herman, our protagonist, is in search of his "mysteriously dematerialised" family: his wife, Rose, and his son. The townsfolk introduce him to the ways of the town, initially promising him his family, but soon coercing him to "forget".
It brings a dreariness, exhaustion that feels unusual for a novel of this length. But the exhaustion is rewarding in the sense that it provokes a sense of alarm, a longing for detail. A dark, funereal, damp novel that spoke to me very intimately.
Thanks to Edelweiss and Two Lines Press for the DRC.
It brings a dreariness, exhaustion that feels unusual for a novel of this length. But the exhaustion is rewarding in the sense that it provokes a sense of alarm, a longing for detail. A dark, funereal, damp novel that spoke to me very intimately.
Thanks to Edelweiss and Two Lines Press for the DRC.
acweber's review against another edition
5.0
DAMN OK! MARIE NDIAYE AND JORDAN STUMP DID THAT! And I loved every minute of it