GoodReads meta-date is 276 pages, rated 3.93 by 193 litizens.
Genre: krimi.
Verdict: Po-Mo
I chose it for the Hamburg setting. We had been planning to spend a few days there in September 2020.
Reading some of Goodreads reviews, I was impressed that so many who commented were able to summarise the book. I couldn’t. I could not figure out who our hero was, what her work was, or why I should care, or much else. Still less could I fathom why I should be interested in any of it. Instead I waded through repeated laborious descriptions of hangovers, bitterness, and ponderous witticisms. To the deus ex machina finish.
I found it to be cryptic, convoluted, and disjointed, eschewing a linear narrative. It leaves the effort of integrating the parts into a whole to the reader. This reader declined the task.
Po(st)-Mo(dern) is it then. Whenever I see that phrase Po-Mo I always fear the worst, and so far Po-Mo has never let me down.