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Local DescriptionVOL005 DescriptionPresence on the road. Call it a road. Somewhere with the expectations of a road. The expectation to go on. For example. The expectation to overcome the impediments to going on. The expectation that going on is possible. The expectation that going on is even to be considered. Too late. Something near necessity bound to something near impossibility. Near enough in either case. Resembling both. But contending in their imperfections. Imperfect necessity. Imperfect impossibility. No more likely candidates for hope. Composed entirely of details that would have been better left out, Some Things Wrong is an unsparing yet strangely cheerful exploration of failure, error and incapacity. Our memories, identities, concepts and intentions are entirely dependent on the errors on which they are founded. By exhausting these errors and by calling its own content constantly into question, this book asks what it is, at base, that enables or causes us to continue. Reviews“There aren’t enough experimental Édouard Levé-esque books published in Aotearoa. Koed creates a claustrophobic narrative with a rhythm built on staccato sentences, guilt, and repetition. Similar to that other brilliant novel from 2023, Pip Adam’s Audition, there’s a crushing sense of interiority. The focus however abruptly shifts from subject to object, recasting what we’d read beforehand. Koed describes himself as writing ‘unpopular fiction’ but all I say is: More please!” —Brannavan Gnanalingam (The Spinoff, ‘The Aotearoa books of the year for 2023’)
Of No Relation: Of No Relation: Author descriptionThomas Pors Koed writes unpopular fiction. |