A review by infinimata
სათვალიანი ქალი თოფით მანქანაში by Sébastien Japrisot

4.0

Some time back I read Muriel Spark's "The Driver's Seat", which has some distant thematic and aesthetic resemblances to this book. "Lady/Car/Glasses/Gun" has about 100% more thriller ingredients, but equally full to the brim with first-person reflexive psychological insights, someone (actually, a couple of someones) confessing to themselves what a horrible thing they've done, what a horrible person they are. The plot is astoundingly contrived, in the way many books of this flavor are, but when done well, as it is here, it comes off as a juggling act involving flaming torches, chainsaws, and bowling balls with nails sticking out of them. You know it's all a performance, but it's such a good performance, such a daring one, you don't care.

This book has also been filmed not once but twice, although only the most recent adaptation is readily available.