The upcoming novel The Wave caught my eye thanks to its stark black and white jacket design and what sounds to be a fairly genre-bending plot that combines screenplay and meta-fiction. The Wave is due to be published next month and sounds like an interesting mix of David Lynch, Kafka and Paul Auster.
It is written by debut novelist Lochlan Bloom and you can pre-order and find out more at the author’s website: http://lochlanbloom.com/writing/the-wave
I have included a brief synopsis below:
Synopsis
When μ returns home to find a sinister screenplay has arrived from Brazil it propels him on a quest to track down a character he believes to be called Ddunsel.
As μ’s search progresses it slowly becomes entangled with two parallel tales - the stories of DOWN, a troubled publisher, and David Bohm, a real-life quantum theoretician in post-war São Paulo.
Just how far is it from London to Gotham City? Or from Paul Auster to Pierre Menard for that matter? Some people may think these sorts of questions are idle and ultimately meaningless but this book is not for them.
The Wave combines multiple narratives to blend metafiction, historical fiction and screenplay as each of the characters struggles to understand what is reality and what is fiction.
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