Nothing - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Michael N wakes up from a coma believing that he can imagine things out of existence: that he can vanish everything from his children's involvement in terrible accidents to his colleague's eyeballs. Recovering from a head injury (having been hit by a golf ball, of all things) he is incredulous to find that he lives in a quiet suburb in the commuter belt, in a house with a strange minotaur statue, let alone with this woman, Esme, who calls herself his wife. In the aftermath of his accident, and in the midst of something akin to psychosis, his relationship with his family starts to fall apart, further worsening when he suspects Esme of having an affair with his childhood friend Lucas. As he struggles to piece together an identity from memories others give to him, his belief in his ability to alter the world with his imagination - in ways that are sometimes grand and at other times absurdly minute - escalates and eventually unravels his sense of self, until even his wife no longer knows who he is. And as his hold on reality loosens, and the world around him frays at its edges, he has to fight to remember himself back into existence. NOTHING is a dark, unnerving domestic drama and an exuberant, often extremely funny depiction of the absurdity of contemporary suburban life. It is a novel about uncertainty, anxiety and parental paranoia, but it is also an irreverent, mischievous book, propelled by the daring inventiveness of its language. The imagination and wit at play in NOTHING brings to mind Nicola Barker, as well as the formal playfulness and emotional tug of Max Porter, but this is a truly original novel and one that announces a startlingly bold new voice.

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