Kree: A Post-Exotic Novel
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A warrior struggles through an apocalyptic landscape and the world after death Kree Toronto has been raised as a warrior in a ravaged world: postapocalyptic, posthuman, the population decimated by wars and civilization long since collapsed. After her attempt to avenge the death of her dog, Loka, goes horribly wrong, Kree finds herself lost in a world after death and wanders into the city of the terrible mendicants. Under the Brothers' totalitarian rule, Kree can lead a quiet life and forget her violent past, even if needles grow in her skull and hallucinatory blood rains pour down now and then to remind her. She can make friends: a shamanic healer with a shaking tent, a mysterious stranger hatched from an egg, and a gruff Tibetan electrician in a world without electricity. And she can have her Loka as long as she toes the Party line and does as she's told. When she can't--when her friends start to disappear and the Brothers turn against her--Kree sets out on a quest, searching for a new way forward. Multiply reincarnated and unstuck in time, Kree is the characteristically marvelous creation of Manuela Draeger, whose extraordinary stories, in the words of author China Miéville, "are as close to dreams as fiction can be."
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Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!
I think the translation needs some more polishing before publishing because there were a lot of “what”s spread out throughout the book that made absolutely no sense, even to me, a non native english speaker. At some point the translator also used “her” instead of “they” when refering to a group.
To be completely honest I finished the book against my will, and only because it was quite short. The reading experience is just not enjoyable, either because the writing becomes very dense at parts (either looooong paragraphs that go on for pages and pages) or “chapters” that are composed of single paragraphs that feel more like lore/worldbuilding thrown on the page rather than actual narration?
Either way, the book requires way too much mental energy to even try to understand what is going on, only to realize that nothing really happens and what little it does happen it not really intelligible. It does feel like a dream though, with it's jumbled timelines, so if that was the goal, it definitely was achieved.