![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps some things cannot be expressed in words. This novel disarms us, capturing something complete and true about contemporary life. This story is written with sharp observations and it is funny, yet underpinned by melancholy. Each of these lovers in turn becomes must and anti-must, delaying the gratification of the narrator’s one true obsession, the completion of the every more unwieldy thesis. ![]() If only the narrator wasn’t so distracted by three enticing and different women who arrive one after the other, representing body, heart and soul. The premise is deceptively simple–through the prisms of three love affairs our narrator struggles to complete an impossibly ambitious graduate thesis, on that the narrator believes will synthesize every important human thought and revolutionize our understanding of the world. This is a gripping novel of ideas with as heart and intellect. Can both coexist or does one take precedence over the other in particular situation? I think the author believes that they cannot coexist at the same time and only chaos results if you try to put it together. This is a story that is smart as well as sensual about what love and intellect. ![]()
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