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Swallowing A Donkey's Eye (2012)

by Paul Tremblay(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1926851692 (ISBN13: 9781926851693)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Chizine Publications

review 1: This was a refreshing, absurd and very enjoyable novel. The main character and first-person narrator (who isn’t given a name) is a twenty-something who has left home in City to begin work on Farm. These locales are named for what they are, Farm, City and later in the story, Pier, a poverty- and disease-stricken place below City where the homeless and poor are exiled. When the main character learns that his mother (and this young man has some major mother and father issues, a trait which drives him throughout the story) has been kicked out of her home he becomes caught in the middle of a power struggle between a group of revolutionaries, a corrupt Mayor and an even more corrupt political system which seems always on the brink of collapse. Another review compared this shor... moret novel to the cult film BRAZIL, and I have to agree. Might be why I enjoyed it so much. That, and the fact that a lot of characters with whom the narrator has to contend are dressed in chicken suits. Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye is one of those books that live outside your normal cookie-cutter read. It delivers a wonderful story in the midst of such a surreal landscape. If you like to be surprised when reading, and pleasantly so, check this one out.
review 2: I can't even begin to tell you how excited I was about this book. I've read most of Tremblay's other stuff and really loved the initial forays into to the City/Pier world. A full-blown novel in the same setting? Awesome. The addition of Farm to the world? Brilliant. It was different than I expected, differently dark and horrific than some of the stories, but I enjoyed the hell out of it nonetheless. My only wish is that I'd waited just a liiiiiiittle longer to devour it. I read it right when it came out, at the beginning of 2012's election cycle, before things really started to get going. I do sort of wish I'd waited until, say, mid-October. less

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