![]() What lies beyond? What blackness resides just on the other side? The novel explores this theme relentlessly. There's a certainly brooding, almost philosophical quality to the prose that perfectly matches the impersonal landscape. September 2018: I'm re-reading this now and finding it just as mesmerizing. The prose style isn't elaborate, but it isn't stark either, and the best I can describe it is to say that it weaves quite a spell, opening a slight yet horrifying window onto the sort of existential dread we all tend to keep at bay. ![]() I recognized something of myself and my fellow expats in the thoughtfully self-centered and naive travelers depicted here, and something of the merciless cruelty of the desert I was never far from. ![]() Hypnotic, searing, terrifying, I first read this when I too was living in North Africa-in Egypt, to be precise-and it utterly shattered me. ![]()
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