A review by foggy_rosamund
Amphibian by Christina Neuwirth

4.0

I picked this up in the wonderful Edinburgh independent book shop, Lighthouse Books. It's an imaginative, surreal novella, in which a floor of an office building is slowly filling with water. This is because the workers are deemed by the administration not to be performing well enough. First the water rises to their ankles, and then gradually swallows them up. This element is developed in absolutely realistic manner, exploring what it would mean to work under water, but it's also a clever commentary on office life, and the arbitrary decisions of management. A witty, angry book -- recommended.