Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari’s help. The title of Ishiguro’s sixth novel, comes from Kathy’s favourite Judy Bridgewater song – a fictionalised singer – which is on a tape called ‘Songs after Dark’.Īfter Dark by Haruki Murakami is set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn. What is revealed, as Kathy’s reminiscences accumulate, is a life of preparation for a special role in a world that has begun to exploit the medical possibilities of genetic technology. In the absence of parents and conflicted teachers, the three form a dependent and emotional connection. She draws the reader gradually into her recollections of her life at Hailsham, the idyllic boarding school where she grew up alongside her best friends Ruth and Tommy. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is narrated by Kathy, a thirty-one year old carer who looks after her ‘donors’. But when Trish is confronted by “Baby A,” the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious “Donor Y,” whose horrific infectious nightmares are threatening to sweep through the precious sleep supply, her faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter. Trish Edgewater is their top recruiter, getting people who still have healthy sleep to ‘donate’ sleep to those less fortunate. Run by the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers, the Slumber Corps is at the forefront of the fight against this deadly new disease. Insomnia is more endemic in Sleep Donation by Karen Russell, a haunting novella set in a world where hundreds of thousands of people have totally lost the ability to sleep. His growing relationship with a disturbed young woman named Marla Singer, and his involvement in Tyler’s grand plan – Project Mayhem – mean that his insomnia gets worse, leading to a complete breakdown with reality. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy. Inspired by his doctor’s exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, the protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Who is Sabine? How can she “see” what Griffin is painting when they have never met? And most importantly, does she exist outside of Griffin’s mind?įight Club by Chuck Palahniuk also questions what is real and what isn’t. The book revolves around a central question. Inside the book, Griffin and Sabine’s letters are to be found nestling in their envelopes, permitting the reader to examine the intimate correspondence of these inexplicably linked strangers.
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This stunning visual novel unfolds in a series of postcards and letters, all brilliantly illustrated with whimsical designs, bizarre creatures, and darkly imagined landscapes. His logical, methodical world was suddenly turned upside down by postcards which arrive from a strangely exotic woman living on a tropical island thousands of miles away. Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock is an illustrated epistolary novel which tells the story of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist living in London.
I was tempted to link to Actress by Anne Enright, which used that gorgeous photo of Carrie Fisher watching her mother Debbie Reynolds on stage, but instead, my second link is a book where postcards play an integral role. This month the chain is kicking off with Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher, her semi-autobiographical novel which centres on a 30-year-old actress named Suzanne Vale, and follows her challenges as she overcomes her drug addiction, comes out from under the shadow of her famous parents and gets back into the swing of things, all the while falling in love.
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