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That Time of Year
That Time of Year | Marie Ndiaye
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"After his wife and child disappear at the end of their vacation in a small French village, Herman sets out to find them, only to find that his urgent inquiry immediately recedes into the background and he wittingly and not, becomes one with a society defined by its strange traditions, ghostly apparitions, hospitality that verges on mania, and a nightmarish act of collective forgetting"--
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That Time of Year | Marie Ndiaye
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Pickpick

As I was reading this I couldn‘t help but think of David Mitchell‘s Slade House—in both books, the sense of impending & inevitable doom begins on the first page & just never lets up. In this one Herman‘s wife & child go missing just before they are to return to Paris from their summer vacation in a rural, idyllic village. Determined to find them, Herman stays but soon finds nothing is quite as it seems. I enjoyed it but it may not be for everyone.

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OutAndAbout
That Time of Year | Marie Ndiaye
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Mehso-so

This book isn‘t so much a story as a mood. You know that feeling when you‘ve binged too much tv at one time and now just the thought of standing up to get water seems like too much effort? Weird and eerie, written beautifully but with a sense of blasé. Not so much “nightmarish” as many describe it, but dreamlike, in that weird “am I awake or asleep right now” mood. I‘m glad I read it, more glad it was very short.

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OutAndAbout
That Time of Year | Marie Ndiaye
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Library haul. Three from Brazil 🇧🇷 for January‘s #FoodAndLit challenge, 1 for my #LeadershipAndManagement #bizreads challenge, and 1 tagged here that I can‘t remember why I reserved! Starting with that one hoping it‘s an amazing surprise!

Texreader Whoohoo!!! 4y
Butterfinger I'm glad I am not the only one who requests books and then forgets the reason. 4y
rabbitprincess I borrowed Think Like a Rocket Scientist but ran out of time with it! I‘ll have to request it again. 4y
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Bertha_Mason
That Time of Year | Marie Ndiaye

"Herman felt as if the water that had replaced the blood in his veins was beginning to freeze, and he knew for certain that nothing would ever warm him again."

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Bertha_Mason
That Time of Year | Marie Ndiaye

"He thought he could feel his waterlogged brain dripping onto the walls of his skull, water trickling all through his body with nowhere to drain."

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RebeccaH
That Time of Year | Marie Ndiaye
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This book is nightmarish in the best way. A family stays one day longer on their summer vacation than normal and...nothing is ever the same. It‘s creepy and weird and fascinating.

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