by Solvej Balle
ISBN: 978-0-571-38337-9
First published: 2020 in Denmark
179 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Translated by Barbara J. Haveland
Cover image: The House on the Meadow by Hannah Cooper Welk
4 / 5 Stars
What would you do if you were trapped? Not in a room or an office, not in a job, not in a camp, but in time. What would you do if you were trapped in a day?
This book explores that concept, but with an ordinary person. Written by a Danish author, but set in France, the wife of an antique book dealer gets trapped in a day.
What would you do?
The book describes the detail of existence where every day is the same, although not quite the same. You build new memories, you make plans. Items stick with you, in ‘your’ time, some return to their original time, and reset every 24 hours.
How do you make sense of it. How do you connect with loved ones, when your memories begin to fade, but theirs are fresh as yesterday. Which for them it was.
The biggest question, would you buy the sequel. Do you want to find out what is next?
Absolument!!
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