This is Milorad Pavic's latest novel, published last year and
translated in English few weeks ago. This time Pavic has written
"multi-ending story that diverges into one hundred branches". In
Serbian there are actually two books: one which is regular novel
("Unique Item") and second one is "Blue Book" with rest 99 endings.
English version is a fusion of those two books so reader may "choose
his/her own end".
This will be Book-Ring as soon as I finish reading (although I have
Serbian version I would like to post my own opinion before ring
starts). So feel free to PM me if you are interested.
>From the book:
"The author has followed the ancient wisdom that says: the ending is
the crown and the demise of a work. Therefore this novel is not like
other books. It finishes differently for every reader, so each
receives his own end to tale. For this book has one hundred different
endings. Like the hundred gold coins that the poor man in a folk tale
receives for a magic bird. Thus you can choose whichever ending you
prefer. Leave the rest to others. Be satisfied with your own end, you
do not need another's."
AND THEN COMES THE WARNING:
"Just as smoking is bad for your health, so is the reading of a
hundred endings of the same book. It is almost like gaining one
hundred deaths instead of one"
So everything is up to you...
Book:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2934583/
And My bookshelf:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/zzz
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