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This book wasn‘t for me and had it been any longer (it‘s not even 100p), I would‘ve DNF. I‘m sure this is me & not the book, after all it was on the shortlist for the International Booker Prize so I‘m sure there‘s something I don‘t see

3 men have travelled to island to go fishing & then it expands into a story of some of the islanders. Then someone dies & they may come back at ghosts, but since they were just introduced, I didn‘t really care

Hallucinatory fishing trip in rural Argentina. Male friendship, trauma, guilt, myth, grief, belonging and other, violence. Cinematic imagery: fire, huge stingray, dance dissolved to fighting. Dreams of the Drowner. Sparse, intense translation by Annie McDermott. 2024

47 “It wasn‘t a ray. It was that ray.”

79 “Every morning, since the girls died, he wakes up convinced he‘s going to hear that Siomara‘s set herself on fire. He‘s sure she‘ll do it.”

A short book with a message, but what message? Three men have a drunken vacation on an island they have had a troubled history with, and touch on the sore tensions of the also drunken locals. I was thinking colonialism, but the Argentinian author says it‘s an attack on conservative “neo-liberals”. Whatever it is, it‘s entangled within in an interesting way and open to interpretation. Lots to think about after only 2.5 hrs of reading.

Not a River arrived today, the day of its US release. That‘s the last of the books i ordered for my birthday last month. Here are the 18 books I‘m calling my birthday books. (I‘ll list the titles in the comments.) So far I‘ve read one - Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, which i finished today