Incompletes

A world-spanning intellectual thriller in the vein of Sebald

“Now I am going to tell the story of something that happened one night years ago, and the events of the morning and afternoon that followed.”

The Incompletes begins with this simple promise. But to try to get at the complete meaning of the day’s events, the narrator must first take us on an international tour—from the docks of Buenos Aires, to Barcelona, until we check in at the gloomy Hotel Salgado with the narrator’s transient friend Felix in Moscow. From scraps of information left behind on postcards and hotel stationery, the narrator hopes to reconstruct Felix’s stay there. With flights of imagination, he conjures up the hotel’s labyrinthine hallways, Masha, the captive hotel manager, and the city’s public markets, filled with piles of broken televisions.

Each character carries within them a secret that they don’t quite understand—a stash of foreign money hidden in the pages of a book, a wasteland at the edge of the city, a mysterious shaft of light in the sky. The Incompletes is a novel disturbed by this half-knowledge, haunted by the fact that any complete version of events is always just outside our reach.

Un thriller intelectual care se intinde pe plan mondial in vina lui Sebald „Acum voi spune povestea a ceva ce s-a intamplat cu o noapte in urma, si a evenimentelor din dimineata si dupa-amiaza care au urmat.” Incomplets incepe cu aceasta promisiune simpla. Dar, pentru a incerca sa intelegem sensul complet al evenimentelor din ziua respectiva, naratorul trebuie mai intai sa ne duca intr-un turneu international - de la docurile din Buenos Aires, la Barcelona, pana cand ne vom inregistra la posomoratul Hotel Salgado impreuna cu prietenul trecator al naratorului Felix in Moscova.