Book #32 in 2012
Tree of Codes
by Jonathan Safran Foer
"Tree of Codes is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes
explores previously unchartered literary territory. Initially deemed
impossible to make, the book is a first — as much a sculptural object as
it is a work of masterful storytelling. Tree of Codes is the
story of an enormous last day of life — as one character's life is
chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious,
at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and
place, making the story of one person’s last day everyone’s story.
Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran
Foer has taken his "favorite" book, The Street of Crocodiles by
Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, and used it as a canvas, cutting
into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in
Jonathan Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice."
September 24th - a few hours - 139 pages
Notes:
I am now obsessed with this book and everything published by this company.
SO FUCKING COOL.
