Life's a drag, and nobody knows that better than Bert. Bert wants to write. Healso wants to kill himself. He has composed a brilliant suicide note, but so farhis attempt at a brilliant suicide is as devoid of success as his writing career.Not wanting to die wondering if his mother will fully compreh
Too many tsunamis: a tale of love, light, and incidental humour
β Scribed by Vincent Pienaar
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House South Africa; Penguin Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 132 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Century City, South Africa
- ISBN
- 148590398X
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β¦ Synopsis
Life's a drag, and nobody knows that better than Bert. Bert wants to write. Healso wants to kill himself. He has composed a brilliant suicide note, but so farhis attempt at a brilliant suicide is as devoid of success as his writing career.Not wanting to die wondering if his mother will fully comprehend hisnote, Bert sets out to explain himself β in a footnote. A footnote that keepsgrowing and growing like a monster wave.Bert carries on living, for now, recounting his string of doomed relationships,and bemoaning his dead-end job in a printing shop, and the fact thathe's 34 and still living with his mother.But into the shop walks the mysterious Lelani Balt β Lightning Bolt β andsparks begin to fly. Bert might finally have something to write about.
β¦ Subjects
Suicide -- Fiction
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