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Checkpoint
by David Albahari
I got this book as part of a 1 year subscription to Restless Books and I wasn't that thrilled at first, since I'm not a Kafka fan. When I flipped through the pages and realized that it's a 200 page paragraph, I was more than a bit dismayed. But I liked it! The key for me was to read it quickly, which isn't difficult since the writing is clean and the narrative flows smoothly, in it's own surreal way. I felt like I was on a run, with the scenes and characters unfolding to my left and right, and me exclaiming Haha! Heh Heh! Yuck! 'What?' as I zipped along. One of the cover blurbs says it's "between Kafka and Kubrick" - and I can see it as a movie in the 'Dr. Strangelove' mode. Peter Sellers would have been great as the commander.