The Messiah of Stockholm | 
pickI had a shaky start with this book, and ended really enjoying it. Based on a real-life lost manuscript, it explores lost identity, lost family and lost culture, and how those vacuums are filled. There's a progression from febrile unreality towards bland materiality, that in gaining, the MC loses something. The holocaust is woven through the narrative, at times explicitly, at times in the drift of smoke from something roasting or on fire. 👇🏼
Bookwomble Although by the book's end the MC's trajectory has been from night into day, from private to consensus reality, there remains a thrill of the uncertain, the possibility that the fantastic, veiled and withdrawn, is still imminent, its potential to break through and disrupt still alive and ready to reclaim. 4/5🌟 4y
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