Description
A man attempts to navigate a life thrown off course when his wife’s announcement detonates the fragile story he’s been telling himself about love, loyalty, and the future. As divorce closes in, he dodges direct confrontation, letting memories, emotions, and half-formed meanings drift at the edge of speech—where betrayal and grief coexist with the stubborn, inexplicable persistence of feeling. Blending layered voices and shifting narrative frames, the novel becomes a meditation on how language can both illuminate and conceal, and what remains when identity and responsibility can no longer be neatly named. With its playful self-reflexivity and philosophical acuity, this distinctive work turns private upheaval into a broader inquiry into narration, absence, and the “natural” shape of experience that refuses to be fully claimed.
Available Editions
paperback
Janet45
Published Jan 1, 2021
215 pages
ISBN: 9786191860999
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Details
First Published
2005
Language
eng
Translation
From: bul
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Natural Novel by Georgi Gospodinov.