โ Scribed by Kavan, Anna;
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Depicting the hopeless, emotional polarity of a young couple, this novel follows their doomed marriage spent in a remote, tropical hell. Sheโdescribed only as โthe girlโโis young, sophisticated and sensitive. He, โMr. Dog-Head,โ is an unreconstructed thug and heavy drinker who rapes his wife, otherwise passing his time bludgeoning rats with a tennis racket. Together with a visiting stranger, โSuede Bootsโโwho urges the woman to escape until he is banished by her husbandโthese characters live through the same situations twice. Their identities are equally realโor unrealโin each case. With slight variation in the background and the novelโs atmosphere, neither the outcome nor the characters themselves are quite the same the second time. The constant question of the jungle โbrain-leverโ bird remains unanswered: who are you?
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