The Anomaly

by Hervé Le Tellier

Victor watches all these disparate lives, all these shifting anxieties in the outsized petri dish of the hangar—it really is a funny word—but can’t decide on which one to focus his attention. He surrenders to the fascination of lives other than his own. He’d like to choose one, to find the right words to describe this creature, and succeed in believing that he has come close enough to it not to betray it. Then move on to another. And another. Three characters, seven, twenty? How many simultaneous stories would a reader consent to follow?

A bit on the nose for this book!