What even is this?

I picked this one up after seeing a mutual on Tiktok post about reading it and boy am I glad. This is translated into English and I do feel like whenever that happens we do lose out on the cultural importance of the original.

I recommend that you read this in one go if you are able. It is a short-ish book, but honestly, if you put it down for too long, you risk losing track of what is going on.

It reads as a dialogue between to characters and it is disorienting, which is the point.

There were many points I could pull out of this, but the only one that truly stuck was the fear and anxiety of being a parent. This overwhelming and sometimes obsessive anxiety in keeping your child safe and what sacrifices you would make to do that.

The tension and unease begin small and expected, but it builds to the point of a Fever Dream . Until, as the reader, even you aren't sure what is real anymore. What I love is that instead of relying on your usual instincts of solving a mystery, you just have to go with it and flow with the writing and the story, because eventually, it isn't even about what happened or what will happen. It's just about the moments, and knowing you can't do anything to change it, you just have to let it go.