David Kepesh (the distinguished U.S. American author's alter ego ?), an ageing university teacher and seducer, falls madly in love with one of his young students, a Cuban girl named Consuelo. Sex, explicit and steamy but not pornographically treated, has an important role to play in this short but impressive novel which is also a meditation on time, dependence and death. Both humorous and moving too at times. Well worth reading, I found.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 26 October 2004 ) |
