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Loading... Let No One Sleep (edition 2022)by Juan José Millás (Author), Thomas Bunstead (Translator)
Work InformationLet No One Sleep by Juan José Millás
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) castordm | Jun 19, 2023 |  Seriously ... wait for it. This is one of these books that is building up to something ... quite shocking in the end. And I don't even know what I mean by "one of these books" because I give Let No One Sleep about 3 1/2 stars just for strange novelty alone (which I thought would be just strange novelty just for the sake of strange novelty as I was growing bored with the strange meandering about halfway through). So wait for it. I didn't think it worth the 14 bucks I paid for it, but it's still a pretty worthwhile read. I used to read a lot of short stories out of Bellevue Press, which touches on topics of mental health in literature. (Recommended for people with strange bird ideas or fantasies, or those with an ornithological bent) Good psychological cautionary tale of what happens when you take (artistic) liberties with and advantage of people with mental health issues. (  ) The_Bubblegum_Review | Apr 6, 2023 |  This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. ) SiriJR | Sep 23, 2022 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. SLandis | Sep 1, 2022 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. ) psychomamma | Aug 12, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
"After the IT firm where she works shuts down, Lucía has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment's air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the neighbor responsible for the music. Calaf, he says, is his name, also the name of the character from Puccini's Turandot and the name of the bird Lucía received on her 10th birthday from her long-since-dead mother. When Calaf moves out of her building, Lucía becomes obsessed, driving through Madrid and searching for him on every corner, meeting intriguing characters along the way. What follows is a surreal tale of superstition and coincidence, featuring Millás's singular dark humor. Let No One Sleep is a delirious novel in which the mundane and extraordinary collide, art revives and devastates, and identity is unhinged by the forces of globalized capitalism"-- No library descriptions found. |
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)863.64Literature Spanish and Portuguese Spanish fiction 20th Century 1945-2000LC ClassificationRatingAverage: (3.5)
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