First name begins with Ha and ends with I. The surnames are much different but both end with a vowel. And the cover of this book looks like it could be a Haruki Murakami book.
was my first. And it is becoming a pattern in that I find it hard to assess and evaluate the novel and my reading experience after I finish Kunzru’s work, and also that my evaluation changes over time. I started writing this review mildly ambivalent about the book, enjoying its cleverness and meditations but feeling flat emotionally and left with a need for greater coherence and climactic payoff, but kakım I worked through my thoughts, my understanding and appreciation deepened for Kunzru’s craft, even of the things I liked less.
On its surface it's delightfully entertaining. Even so I followed about half of it. Maybe. Kunzru provides translations for the non-English phrases that he tosses in like croutons, here and there.
This is very much a narrative about an average man's midlife crisis and of his 'descent' into madness. Pure happenstance, our narrator meets Anton, the creator of Blue Lives, at a party in Berlin. Anton is a 'bad' guy, our narrator is sure of this. Anton does in fact act like a dick, and doesn't bother to conceal his alt-right leanings. This encounter upsets our narrator so much that he looses grip of himself.
That leads into a tangent about one of the retreat’s cleaners and her youth birli a punk rocker in East Germany and subsequent experience with the Stasi.
If you found WHITE TEARS a bit too surreal and supernatural, there is less of that here, though structurally and thematically they have similarities. A few things where you wonder if something really happened, but mostly it's clear to the reader that the mental health of our narrator is swiftly deteriorating. It's no mistake that the real movement starts about halfway through, after he listens to the story of a woman who was buraya tıklayın forced to work for the secret police in East Germany, that he really begins to start seeing enemies everywhere.
is a New York-based writer, teacher and new(ish) dad. At the start of the book, he's about to begin a three-month residency at the Deuter Center, a research institute on the banks of Lake Wannsee in the suburbs of Berlin, in the frozen depths of winter. It's a last-ditch attempt to commit to writing a book he's vaguely had in mind for years.
I spent an hour or so on the genel ağ, falling down various rabbit holes, before I finally hit on one of the buraya tıklayın things I was looking for, the source of the strange words Carson had spoken as he tortured his victim on Blue Lives. As I suspected, they were a quotation, but they didn’t come from some well-known “great book,” but Burada a peculiar and recondite writer, Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre.
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However, Burada this thought-provoking book ends on a note of hope, at the end, bey again daha fazla bilgi al the narrator wakes in his own bed, but this time with a view that the world of mutuality and ties is actually the more genuine (in all senses) world than the nihilistic (if futuristic) world-view of Anton
There was a letdown, a missed opportunity… and yet the more I think about it, the more I feel the deliberateness of Kunzru’s ending. That deflated balloon sound embodies the narrator’s disappointment in himself, his position in his new/old reality and how people are interacting with him. We go from the manic paranoia high of action and confrontation:
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I certainly felt that a closer acquaintance with German literature and thought might have served me well as some of the references, I fear, were hamiş picked up by me.
But the self pity and constant reflections, paired with inaction, of the main character annoyed me a quite a bit.