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Gabriel Brockwell is a disaffected, twenty‑something aesthete, poet and philosopher whose contemplations about life’s meaning label him terminal. His quest leads him across London, Tokyo, Berlin, and the Galapagos Islands toward a mystical destination called Wonderland. During the journey he undergoes a spell in rehabilitation, faces a near‑death experience involving fugu ovaries, engages in a bizarre sexual encounter with an octopus, and culminates in an ecstatic feast inside Berlin’s famed Tempelhof Airport. Through these episodes the narrative charts Gabriel’s transformation, while his skeptical yet hopeful voice offers a sharp, allegorical commentary on the end of an era and the rise of banal existence.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: D. B. C. Pierre
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