The alter ego of the main character of the book, an old man, relives the most important parts of his life throughout the eyes of his best friend, his younger self.

The old Asle sees two young adults in a park, playing like kids and enjoying the roots of life. The old Asle saves his best friend, the younger Asle, when he sees him almost dead because of alcohol and takes him to the hospital. Battling his demons with alcohol and his love life, the main character of the book paints his troubles in a unique way in order to let go of what’s inside his soul. The only good thing Asle knows is to paint. He lost his wives and his children but still remembers the pain he felt back.

The action was not something special and there was not much of it. Rather the main idea the author focused on was repeated for so many times it almost got boring but I still felt the writing style was done in a unique way and pushed myself into continuing reading it. Of course, the special writing style consists on not having any dots, not having many paragraphs and not having a concrete dialogue, or at least punctuation for it. This book has been so dizzy at times by putting the mind of an alcoholic person into words so well. I would have liked more action, there are 3 or 4 episodes when there is concrete action. I would have liked more characters, besides Asle’s mind and his person, younger or older, there was no time to feel anything for any other character. There were also no feelings, the one thing I’m searching in a book.

Este intodeauna o bucurie sa poti avea acces imediat la noile aparitii. Libris ofera aceasta posibilitate. Multumim

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