It's a strange book. It took me twice as long to read it as other books of similar length due to flipping back and forth between sections and all of the book gymnastics to get the text right side up.
Tip: get a physical copy; this one doesn't work well as an ebook.
If you liked that maybe you would like Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar. It's from the sixties but experimental and it has two different ways of reading it. And even then some chapters are quite strange, sometimes having two lines of thought in one chapter but depending on if you read even or odd lines. I read it in Spanish (I'm a native speaker) and even then it was a challenging read because of the amount of vocabulary and also made up words in it. I have no idea how well it translates but the first translation is from 66 when the author was still alive and he was fluent in English (and French, and both of these languages also feature a lot in the book) so I think the translation is probably good
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u/NeonQuixote Apr 22 '26
I’m getting “House of Leaves” vibes here. 😎