Contraint à l'immobilité par un accident de voiture, un septuagénaire se protège des souvenirs qui l'assaillent lors de ses innombrables insomnies en se racontant l'histoire d'un monde parallèle où le 11 Septembre n'aurait pas eu lieu et où l'Amérique ne serait pas en guerre contre l'Irak mais en proie à la plus dévastatrice des guerres civiles... Un tour de force romanesque au service d'un projet d'une exceptionnelle ambition.
For connoisseurs of imaginative fiction, the novels of Jonathan Carroll are a special treat that occupy a space all their own. His surreal fictions, which deftly mix the everyday with the extraordinary, have won him a devoted following. Now, in Glass Soup, Carroll continues to astound . . . .The realm of the dead is built from the dreams--and nightmares--of the living. Octopuses drive buses. God is a polar bear. And a crowded highway literally leads to hell.Once before, Vincent Ettrich and his lover, Isabelle Neukor, crossed over from life to death and back again. Now Isabelle bears a very special child, who may someday restore the ever-changing mosaic that is reality. Unless the agents of Chaos can lure her back to the land of the dead--and trap her there forever.Glass Soup is another exquisite and singular creation from the author January magazine described as "incapable of writing a bad book much less an uninteresting one."