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There’s no doubt about it, this novel will divide opinion. Personally, I loved it. There were shades of Milan Kundera, Jeff Noon and David Lynch. The first half deals with the narrator’s struggle against depression as he moves mechanically through his life as a teacher in Hong Kong. A newspaper article about the suicide of a Korean model is the trigger for the second half of the text which is more of a surreal fantasy about the narrator trying to save himself by saving the model in question before she committed the act. Think of Murakami’s ‘Hard Boiled Wonderland…’ but set in the contemporary world rather than in that strange, dreamlike citadel of unicorn skulls. https://neilschiller.wordpress.com/reviews/oli-johns/