A review by encgolsen
Being Dead by Jim Crace

4.0

Jim Crace is a truly astonishing author. In this book he examines a murdered couple, middle-aged scientists brutally attacked on the dunes where they'd sought to rekindle the early flame of their marriage. He zooms in and out, examining the decomposition of their mortal bodies in painstaking and poetic detail, relating the tragedy-tinged beginnings of their relationship, showing the state of their marriage in its complacent middle years. Highly original and a strangely compelling read, but definitely not for the squeamish.