Death Box

Author: Susan Sontag (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This is a dreamlike book about love and death. The author sketches a breathtaking black thriller with concise, phrases and a clear single storyline, revealing the sharpness and subversive power of a Kafkaesque allegory. The novel presents the inner world of Didier, a middle-aged man who seems to be suffering from depression. Having given up on life, Didier has attempted suicide. Later, on a train, he meets a blind woman named Hester and falls in love with her. During the same journey, the train suddenly stops in a tunnel. Didier gets off to investigate, clashes with a lonely road worker, and ends up killing him. Upon returning to the carriage, Hester firmly insists that he never left his seat. So whether he actually killed someone becomes intertwined with themes of love and the search for redemption. Love, fear, anger, regret, sympathy, desire, confusion—waves of emotions surge dramatically.