A Landing on the Sun
by:
Michael Frayn (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571204342 (0571204341)
Publish date: March 3rd 2000
Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd.
Pages no: 259
Edition language: English
It's remarkably hard to describe A Landing on the Sun without giving something away, since for quite a while you don't even know what genre it belongs to. Some of my early hypotheses were a bureaucratic comedy of manners; a Kafkaesque study of alienation; a science-fiction novel; a police procedural...
When I read this book I could see nothing in it but the idea that you have been given this gift of life and you have to do the right thing by it. That to give up on finding love and happiness is to scorn this gift.And yet...maybe the very opposite is true. Maybe what I should have seen is the idea t...