Rafeal Reig has just put himself on my radar, and it's thanks to a suggestion by Jessa Crispin over at the NPR Book section. This is a very, very quick read (which somehow still took me nearly a week) that deals with a ghost who looks back on her life while also looking to see who murered her. But this isn't really a genre book by any means. This isn't about a crackling plot or last minute twists to keep you into the night.
It's really more about the life we live and the memories we leave behind. And as a ghost, would we have the ability to look back without romantcizing the elements which we've been familiar with.
The last two "chapters" (there are breaks, but not numbered chapters per se) are some incredible writing, which even in (the occasonally sloppy) translation struck true.
Any attempt to say much more would be a disservice to the book and to any potential readers.
The link above includes a good excerpt which should give you a good idea if you'd like to read the rest of it.
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Read this: http://www.amazon.com/Peace-Gene-Wolfe/dp/0312890338/
ReplyDeleteHaven't read a lot of Wolfe (quelle horreur) but this doesn't strike me as a new concept. Ghosts have been narrating their own tales for quite a while.
ReplyDeleteWhat I liked about this book was the distracted nature of our narrator and her character. There are also some other interesting, but ultimately unfulfilled points of interest, in the alternate history world in which she lived.