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Superabundance

Superabundance

by HeinzHelle (Author), KáriDriscoll (Translator)

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    Paperback 2016

    $3.53
Synopsis

Alone in New York, separated from his girlfriend by the Atlantic Ocean, the nameless narrator of Heinz Helle's electric debut novel is sinking slowly into an invisible crisis. He loves his girlfriend but finds himself attracted to every woman he passes on the street. Totally self-aware yet unable to change his behaviour, he wonders at the ease with which everyone else seems to cope with life. Worse, his brain won't stop its whirring analysis of the world around him, and it's making any human interaction - watching football with friends, drinking with work colleagues, comforting his girlfriend - all but impossible. Superabundance's buzzing narration brings to life the philosophical struggles of everyday existence, and asks: how do we live when our relationships, our actions and even our own minds are filled with such heartbreaking mystery?

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 25 Feb 2016
ISBN 10: 1781253951
ISBN 13: 9781781253953
Book Overview: We can't change who we are. But what if that makes life and love impossible?

Media Reviews
[A] philosophical tour de fource ... which aptly showcases Helle's deadpan humour. This is a linguistically daring portrait of an overwhelmed mind * Financial Times *
Fragmentary prose is welded by a hypnotic voice ... the unnamed narrator of Heinz Helle's debut describes his life in New York with remorseless logic * Guardian *
Beckettian ... excellent ... funny * Independent *
Darkly humorous ... Helle shows us the world with a rare clear-sightedness * Scotland on Sunday *
Superabundance is a work of deadpan brilliance and unflinching honesty, chasing down lines of thought normally lost in the cacophony of our daily lives. I had always assumed I was fully conscious until I read this -- Alex Christofi, author of 'Glass'
A nearly flawless, driving history of total alienation * Die Zeit *
So modern, so cool, so strange -- Hubert Winkels
Author Bio
Heinz Helle was born in 1978. He studied philosophy in Munich and New York. He has worked as copywriter for advertising agencies, and is a graduate of the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. Superabundance is his first book.