Elizabeth Finch is not a book that everyone will like. I admit that seems a strange way to open a review that’s supposed to recommend a book, but I thought it was best to get that out of the way first. It’s wilfully resistant to interpretation, and freely abandons plot in favour of philosophical speculation, and digressions into history and religion. Readers who like clear narrative structure and all loose ends to be tied up by the end will find themselves frustrated by the book’s elusiveness and refusal to play by the rules. However, I think what Barnes is trying to here is very interesting, and I found myself throughout wanting to engage with whatever puzzle it was setting me.
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