A complex recounting of the lives of a retired French inspector, a Japanese professor of law and his friend, a brilliant, immoral novelist. All have experienced tragedy and loss, and each chapter adds more details to their individual stories, more pieces of an intellectual puzzle. With the masterful denouement comes the realisation that it's really about the nature of storytelling, the sifting of details changed by memory to find truths, and how telling and living with lies changes lives.
(Denise Lewis - bwl 78 Autumn 2015 ) |
