Tremor: A Novel | 
pickI'm having a bit of a good run at the moment. I bought this a while back thinking I'd save it to read. A lovely distraction, beautiful, thoughtful prose and so many art and music references to check out.
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pickI'm having a bit of a good run at the moment. I bought this a while back thinking I'd save it to read. A lovely distraction, beautiful, thoughtful prose and so many art and music references to check out.
From over there is a sound of argument, from over there a clamor of complaint, from over there a gospel choir, from over there the muezzin's call, from over there three or four sputtering generators, from over there the squall of the bus stop and taxi stand, from over there revelers and water sellers, from over there the neighbor's relentless television... a vast sonic mix of an ocean that beats its incessant waves the whole night through...
Think instead, he says to himself, of all the people in the Medina Koura, think of them in their homes, in their beds, think of their quotidian worries about their children's schooling. Think about their secret savings, and their delightful subterfuges, their religion and transgressions, their necessary severity, the warmth of their families, and the untranslatable consolations of their lives.
