What’s it about?
Two half brothers’ lives, loves and hang-ups. Michel the withdrawn intellectual, and Bruno a sex obsessed loner, live totally separate lives that connect fleetingly at times of crisis in this dull chronicle of their lives.
Highs n lows
There’s been a lot of fuss about this winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and having read it I have to ask WHY?!! Perhaps it’s because I’m not a man, or an Oxford graduate, but this disconnected chopping and changing between the lives of these two very unhappy and completely uninteresting characters left me cold.
To be fair though, I have to say this is exceptionally well written with some graphic and un-PC treatment of some taboo subjects including school bullying, sexual liberation and child abuse. If you’re interested in the above or lean towards the highbrow, the often gloomy musings about anything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls’ magazines also included in this compilation might keep you going.
Is it any good?
2 out of 5 – great bedtime reading; if you’re having trouble sleeping.
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