Whatever Happened To Harold Absalon?
A Novels, Fiction book. A recently-published British experimental novel: a rare beast and also the first...
Marguerite, a down-at-heel detective, investigates, in minute and comically digressive detail, the disappearance of Harold Absalon, the Mayor’s transport adviser. He follows, and then is followed by, Harold’s wife Isobel and their young child around an unnamed modern city resembling London. Finding himself cornered by Isobel it emerges that Marguerite may be more closely implicated than we think.
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- Pages: 220 pages
- ISBN: 9781907773341 / 0
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It might be that the most boring of actions, the quotidian details of our lives, can become fascinatingly illuminating if focussed on in sufficient detail. The small, unremarkable events of our days, rigorously recorded, may provide a more accurate reflection of our lives than an account which focusses on the unusual or extraordinary.... A recently-published British experimental novel: a rare beast and also the first book I've read from from Salt Publishing. Before a few people on my friendslist get too excited though, this is meant to be accessible experimental fiction. It's not a book that would have Will Self reaching for the OED. Nevertheless I'm at a bit of a disadvantage... Simon Okotie's clever book is a tale of a seedy, horny, intensely self-analytical, obsessive detective named Marguerite, who is following the wife of the disappeared Harold Absalon. Okotie wrote this book while commuting by bus, and the action, such as it is, is predominantly on a bus, except that the book is less about plot (the entire...
