The End of Nightwork

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He works as a tutor to Cynthia, a young disabled artist and activist, and she inspires his increasing fascination with a present-day movement, the Kourists, whose manifesto of intergenerational conflict is refined and discussed on Reddit.

Maybe that was the point, but it made for a frustrating reading experience for me because I was enjoying the actual reading of the book but found myself wanting more from the complete thing.At the climax of the novel, José Arcadio Buendía’s great-great-great grandson decodes the prophecy, which predicts all of the many misfortunes which have befallen his family over the course of the novel. Civil and cultural unrest preoccupies Pol, and manages to mirror a fixation no doubt familiar to most of us: our ever-changing relationships with our appearance.

And despite it being published into 5 days into the New Year I have some confidence in predicting that this will be one of the quirkiest, most intelligent and idea-filled literary fiction (and definitely debut novels) published in 2023. In 1646, when he was my age, Bartholomew Playfere was mustered as a musketeer in the Parliamentary forces. I kept turning it over in my mind after I had finished reading it, and the more I thought about it, the more I saw. From mystics and soothsayers to madmen and mountebanks, prophets people many of my very favourite books and stories.The first half confused me a bit; the dialogue didn’t always sound logical to me, which made it hard to really understand the characters and their motives. Pol’s condition of course links to the Kourist/Hoarist conflict and Playfere’s prophecies to the risks of climate change – all interwoven with myriad generational conflicts, ……. Her rise, he fantasises, would transform the way people perceive his “history of doing nothing of note”. I felt at times the book was very literary and academic then at others it was appealing to a wider audience.

This is a distinctive novel, combining chronic illness, family, philosophical thought, and what gives people meaning.Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. When Pol learns about a new youth movement about the tension between the young and the old, he's intrigued, but any stress in his life could cause his condition to trigger. Pol’s medical condition (and frankly, his temperament) mean he doesn’t have a career so his work on Playfere becomes his identity, allowing him to claim status, intellect and purpose to their friends. Because they are so like us – the readers of the books – and so unlike us at the same time, prophets are uncanny and scary.

The family of José Arcadio Buendía, living in the isolated town of Macondo, are visited by the mysterious Melquiades.Arrested and imprisoned, Isao experiences a number of dream-visions in which he foresees his own death. I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. For just one divine minute, through communion with the Misfit, the grandmother is transported out of her homespun hypocrisy and into a universe of grace.