Entertaining Strangers
A Literary Fiction book. To tidy away, he said once, is to replicate on a miniature scale what Hitler...
Entertaining Strangers is a tragi-comedy about the eccentric Edwin Prince - a depressive intellectual obsessed with high culture and ants - and the mysterious, homeless narrator Jules, who gradually unravels Edwin's impossible relationships with his landlady, neurotic mother, psychotic brother, domineering ex-wife, dead grandfather and, above all, his ant-farm. At the same time, Jules continually experiences traumatic memories full of fire and water, and gradually a terrible pre-history emerges from beneath all of the other stories, which seems somehow to shape both Jules's fiery dreams and Edwin's obsessions - a great fire, massacre and one girl's drowning in Smyrna, 75 years earlier.
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- Pages: 312 pages
- ISBN: 9781907773273 / 0
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To tidy away, he said once, is to replicate on a miniature scale what Hitler did with the Jews, the Young Turks with the Armenians, and what the Yugoslavs are doing now to each other. Hence the term ethnic cleansing. Cleansing, cleaning, tidying all these things are forms of genocide. Jonathan Taylor, Entertaining Strangers //
What a bizarre book. The characters kind of gave me the creeps and left me feeling like I needed a shower. I waded through ramblings about ants and apocalyptic music just so I could find out where this book was going. It was an interesting, yet vague ending - I would have preferred to have it better wrapped up for me instead of just... I first heard extracts of Entertaining Strangers last year at the book's launch in Leicester.I instantly knew that I needed to buy the book, and that I did.After quite a few months of being about 3 chapters in, I decided to pick it up and give it the reading it deserved, and what a book this is.The dark humour combined with the abstractness... Read this for simple and generous poetic writing that twists at your heart with precision, repeated structures and phrases that provide security in a harsh and familiar landscape.Read it for backyards, canals, CDs and music obsessives, family dysfunction and the support of friends. And ants. Read it for a harsh look at what folk are...
