What I liked about Tangiers is that it is unconventional from the point of view of the standard way the story should have gone yet still says a lot in the path it does take.
@glenshane i finished Vodolazkin’s ‘Laurus’ last week, thanks . it was good but the translation felt a bit off in parts. It’s very Dostoyevsky-esque … Tho the type of spirituality that permeates the book is of a much older variety than Dostoyevsky’s existentialism… It’s almost pagan/monastic.
I’m starting into The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by
Murakami Haruki now… A Japanese book based on a lot of random dream like scenarios but is really an examination of choices in life and doing the right thing.
Whats the best one to start with? I never read at all anymore but read slanting of the sun on holidays based on your recommendation and enjoyed it. Yer one working as the care assistant