While the past ahead is really hard to grasp some things stood out to me. I can see a very strong relation to the wasteland, how both authors are trying to talk about a subject by talking around it. Elliot was discussing that feeling of infinite emptiness, an unfillable void. This void is impossible to describe so Elliot had to dance around the subject to give the reader the full depth of the topic he was discussing. Gatore also seems to be dancing around a void. His void is the Rwanda genocide and the destruction it caused those who survived. There also seems to be a sense of severe depression that Gatore has an interesting way of showing through the characters Niko and Isaro.
While I'm relating this book to other stories, Niko reminds me of Tiresias the blind prophet. Just as
Tiresias can see the future but not his own feet, Niko is hearing and seeing the future in his dreams but he can't warn anyone about what is coming. Gatore tells his story but continuously switches back and forth to also tell about Isaro whos only connection I have been able to recognize is their depression and interest in the genocide. Isaro a too eager historian and Niko an unwilling participant.
P.S. I commented on Rachael & Caroline
While I'm relating this book to other stories, Niko reminds me of Tiresias the blind prophet. Just as
Tiresias can see the future but not his own feet, Niko is hearing and seeing the future in his dreams but he can't warn anyone about what is coming. Gatore tells his story but continuously switches back and forth to also tell about Isaro whos only connection I have been able to recognize is their depression and interest in the genocide. Isaro a too eager historian and Niko an unwilling participant.
P.S. I commented on Rachael & Caroline
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