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A real-life vanishing act leaves one man looking for his missing friend in this Kafkaesque new novel from the author of The Room and The Invoice. The gentle, off-beat narrator of The Circus is perfectly content with his quiet life. By day he works in a bakery, and by night he obsessively organizes and reorganizes his record collection: its all just the way he likes it. But when his childhood friend Magnus comes calling out of the blue, the contours of our narrators familiar world begin to shift. On a visit to the circus together, Magnus volunteers to participate in the magicians disappearing act, and midway through the routine he vanishes. Is this part of the act? Whats happened to Magnus? And who is it calling on the phone in the dead of night, breathing into the receiver, but never saying a word? Smart, sharply unsettling, and with its sleight of hand exquisitely kept, The Circus is a funhouse mirror of a readone that ingeniously reveals the way we see ourselves and the stories we tell.
I just finished listening to another audiobook and this is my review for it. I‘ve decided to count this book for a reading challenge that I‘m participating in this year.
The Circus: A Novel | 
so-so
