A review by fruitysaz
The Invisible Land by Sam Taylor, Hubert Mingarelli

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

this is really beautiful. slow, subtle, and does its job perfectly. this book really catches an idea i’ve always agreed with: that a people are not the same as their government. the people that the war photographer meets in this book are just that: people. they’re not these irrevocably evil caricatures. they’re just people who lived through an unbelievably difficult time and are trying to make it out the other side, often dealing with the trauma they’ve gathered along the way. our narrator, the war photographer, is dealing with his own similar traumas by fleeing from them through his work - which ultimately only leads him back to said trauma. at times, this book is almost painfully slow. it holds you in a moment with the photographer, and forces you to sit in it with him. even though it’s just shy of 150 pages, this is NOT an easy read - and it’s all the better for it.