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"I read a book one day and my whole life has changed"-great opening line, good precis of the premise of the book itself.
The narrator of this somewhat obscure and puzzling work, leaves his life behind and becomes suspended in the space between life and death while he searches for the promise of the New Life. This is a book about obsession, unrequited love, with an air of melancholy throughout. On the way we encounter aimless bus travel and multiple crashes in Turkey, seedy nocturnal cafes, insom ...more
The narrator of this somewhat obscure and puzzling work, leaves his life behind and becomes suspended in the space between life and death while he searches for the promise of the New Life. This is a book about obsession, unrequited love, with an air of melancholy throughout. On the way we encounter aimless bus travel and multiple crashes in Turkey, seedy nocturnal cafes, insom ...more
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Nov 08, 2009
Juliana Philippa
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