A deeply, resonant novel about mortality and love

‘This wise, thought-provoking novel deserves to be read and reread.’ Michel Faber

A glimpse of the world as seen by a connoisseur of vicarious experience.

‘…works on the reader like a symphony: discursive yet ordered’ The TLS

‘a disquisition on the nature of storytelling itself… Engrossing at every level’ The Guardian

‘A subtle, erudite novel – a novel as French cinema, both in form and content’ Neil Griffiths, Republic of Conciousness