I think I may up my rating of this to 3.5, if strictly for ingenuity in form. This is a story told from two points of view at the same time ... but within the context of the story, not temporally simultaneously. Sometimes one narrator's version lasts a little longer than the other's... so the story moves ahead in one track, then pauses or digresses. The two narratives are linked by a series of essays being written by one of the narrators. So it's also sort of a study in the subjectivity of the writer.

And... there's also a little subplot of a fucked up, obsessive relationship... which always endears me to a book.

ANyway, I'm glad to have discovered this Nobel-prize winning author.