An unnamed narrator, mistaken for someone else, goes on a perilous journey and brushes up against death and sex in Atlantic Hotel by Brazilian author João Gilberto Noll.
Noll's slender novel is a lot of things at once; a surreal odyssey, a religious analogy, a hardboiled noir, a psychedelic parable. The back-cover description makes it sound like more of a noir, but its hallucinogenic imagery, and cryptic finale, make it anything--and everything--but.
Recommended for those readers who enjoy literary fiction and/or international fiction, but are prepared for sex and violence.
I purchased this with an Amazon gift card and read it quickly.
Noll's slender novel is a lot of things at once; a surreal odyssey, a religious analogy, a hardboiled noir, a psychedelic parable. The back-cover description makes it sound like more of a noir, but its hallucinogenic imagery, and cryptic finale, make it anything--and everything--but.
Recommended for those readers who enjoy literary fiction and/or international fiction, but are prepared for sex and violence.
I purchased this with an Amazon gift card and read it quickly.
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