A calendar of regrets
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A calendar of regrets
39.99 €
A collage novel consisting of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year; all dealing with the notion of travel - in time, space, history and death.
We are told of the poisoning of the artist Hieronymous Bosch; the mysterious Park Avenue robbery of former CBS anchor Dan Razer; invited to read a series of postcard-like reflections on the very idea of travel from an American visiting Burma; a high school teacher who videotapes her erotic asphyxiation and sends it to strangers across America; a husband and wife who form a team of religious fundamentalists in London; and the horrifying hijacking of a car carrying a family on an Italian freeway; a retelling of the myth of Iphigenia from the point of view of Agamemnon's daughter; a series of inventive pirate podcasts of a drifter loitering along the shores of a lake in Southern California; a forensic psychiatrist's interview of the man who attacked Dan Razer; an angel discovered by two boys in a rural area in Finland; a man made up of borrowed organs, each with his own story; and a boy born as a notebook. Each narrative is crafted in a unique style and genre, cut off in the middle and nested within the one that preceded it.
Olsen's novel is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, written by one of the most radical experimenters of American avant-garde literature.
We are told of the poisoning of the artist Hieronymous Bosch; the mysterious Park Avenue robbery of former CBS anchor Dan Razer; invited to read a series of postcard-like reflections on the very idea of travel from an American visiting Burma; a high school teacher who videotapes her erotic asphyxiation and sends it to strangers across America; a husband and wife who form a team of religious fundamentalists in London; and the horrifying hijacking of a car carrying a family on an Italian freeway; a retelling of the myth of Iphigenia from the point of view of Agamemnon's daughter; a series of inventive pirate podcasts of a drifter loitering along the shores of a lake in Southern California; a forensic psychiatrist's interview of the man who attacked Dan Razer; an angel discovered by two boys in a rural area in Finland; a man made up of borrowed organs, each with his own story; and a boy born as a notebook. Each narrative is crafted in a unique style and genre, cut off in the middle and nested within the one that preceded it.
Olsen's novel is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, written by one of the most radical experimenters of American avant-garde literature.
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