In een ruk uitgelezen

Prachtig. Verrassend. Verdrietig. Boeiend. Rauw.

'She has placed him in London, 1988, as he makes his way over a zebra crossing in a white suit to mimic the famous Beatles photograph. In that moment, she freezes her protagonist, his life begins changing since then. From his breakup, to flying to East Germany and falling in love with a man; Saul Adler isn’t the same anymore. Between shifts in memory and cluelessness of time; we find Saul Adler moving in and out of himself in search for something, for someone to offer an answer, a meaning to his struggles in perpetuity. He is in search of transcendence or a consciousness; a moment to be born again and to not relive the life he has lived. At the same time, all he wishes is for life to repeat itself, to whisper forgiveness into his ears and begin again. Levy plays with her character(s) through a stream of consciousness taking leaps from one moment to another. I love Levy’s protagonists. Whether it is Sofie from ‘Hot Milk’ or Saul Adler, they come from academic backgrounds to study the social and the political. They step out in search for knowledge for the other; and end up finding something else all together. The beauty of Levy’s prose is its ability to let the story take shape through her characters. Notwithstanding their duration in the story, each of her characters contribute to something important and symbolic to overall story. She lets them speak through her seamless flow of words running from one page to another. This book was
fascinating in its style and the use of language. ' this is part of a review that I found that helps me remember what it was like.