![]() ![]() He said that it was basically three stories combined into one, told with transcripts, footnotes, weird spacing choices, and a claustrophobic nuance that made the reader feel like they were going a bit loony. ![]() Review: Back when I was just out of college but still hadn’t quite found my footing, my dear friend Blake (bestie from high school, now far away friend) told me about this creepy book that he was reading called “House of Leaves” by Mark Z Danielewski. The narrator is eager to finish a screenplay, entitled Marriage, for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around him-and in himself. ![]() ![]() These are the opening lines of the journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann’s spellbinding new novel: the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany-a house that thwarts the expectations of his recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. “It is fitting that I’m beginning a new notebook up here. Publishing Info: Pantheon Books, June 2017īook Description: From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer’s emotional collapse Book: “You Should Have Left” by Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin (Translator) ![]()
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