OK, Mr Field
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Mr Field, a concert pianist travelling back from a performance in London, suffers a fractured wrist in a train crash. On a whim, he uses his compensation money to buy a house he has seen in a newspaper – a replica of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye – on the coast outside Cape Town. But when Mr Field moves there with his wife, Mim, he finds that the house has a disturbing and unexpected effect. Dwelling in the gaps within conversations, and the distances between people, OK, Mr Field is a powerful story of obsession, disintegration and loneliness.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
A maddening, enigmatic book, slow and quiet, the prose seemingly simple but fascinating, as is the protagonist, Mr no-first-name Mr.Field, doing nothing very much in his replica Le Corbusier house in Cape Town.
Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek- Norway