Just finished this: its a bizarre book. Its just bizarre and perverse for the first 250 pages or so, and then it examines these characters that have been developed. Michel, and Bruno are brothers, who have lived separate, different, but parallel lives. From page 250 onwards, tragedy strikes, and the rest of the book explores their response. It is moving and devastating. Highly recommended, but not for those who can’t persevere.

He says, going back to James Joyce’s Ulysses, which he started getting on for a year ago…