The Giant Dark: an award-winning novel about love and fame

by Sarvat Hasin

In the end, it became too entangled – the fluctuation of their intimacy was violent and tide-like.

A person can become a time machine if you leave them alone for long enough, especially when that person is close to you, especially when they are a lover. Their skin can hold everything about you from that time, frozen in their bodies.

They are caught in this endless exchange of doing things for each other. People do this for their whole lives, he thinks.

Other people are falling in love and you are constantly near sleep, so bored out of your skull that you cannot do anything, not even read the books that filled your suitcase or watch anything other than thirty-minute sitcoms that massage your brain with their blandness, like eating rice for a sick stomach.