"It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story
that proves it beyond all doubt." With this sentence Rene Belletto
begins a novel that compresses every genre he has worked
in-thriller, science fiction, experimental literature, horror-into
one breathless narrative in which what is at stake is nothing less
than our own immortality. Playing with the expectations of the
reader, Belletto constructs a logical puzzle that defies logic,
much like the "almost-perpetual motion machine" invented by the
narrator of this novel and his father. What sets the story in
(perpetual) motion is a package of frozen seafood. This lowly
mechanism triggers a series of picaresque and otherworldly events,
from the storyteller's meeting with Fate disguised as a beautiful
woman, to the kidnapping of his daughter, to his amorous reunion
with the younger half-sister of a high school friend, to the
elimination of death from the world. It's a funny business, but
Belletto's playful and falsely transparent language opens the book
to such serious matters as explorations of death, immortality,
love, and the innocence of children.
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