The Wave

Description

Just how far is it from London to Gotham City? Or from Paul Auster to Pierre Menard for that matter? Some people may think these sorts of questions are idle and ultimately meaningless but this book is not for them. Three intertwined narratives play out as the stories of an isolated loner, DOWN, a depressed publisher, and David Bohm, a real-life quantum theoretician in post-war Sao Paulo, become entangled. The closer each of these trails leads to the dark centre of the world the more reality disintegrates. Dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense drag each of the characters struggling into an absurd, labyrinthine world of seemingly infinite regress.