Siamese

by Stig Sæterbakken

A brutally comic portrait of marriage, taken to extremes reminiscent of the work of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard.

Edwin Mortens is almost blind, but has good hearing; his wife Erna is hard of hearing, but can see perfectly. Edwin sits locked in his bathroom all day, every day, trying to liberate his mind from his body. The experiment is going relatively well: nearly all his bodily functions have ceased, his limbs are in a state of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628976020
• ISBN13: 9781628976021
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 190 Pages