We discovered Dan Chaon (born in Sidney, Nebraska, in 1964) in 2002 with
Among the Missing
, a collection of short stories of such power and perfection that it could have won the National Book Award if a certain Jonathan Franzen had not had the idea of publishing
Les Corrections
that year
.
There were then two novels and another collection of short stories before this dark work that was
A Soft Glimmer of Malevolence
, in 2018. Obsessed with the themes of identity, family lies, the madness which can lead men to the worst ends, Chaon brought them together in a masterful literary thriller.
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Today, he returns with
Somnambule
, a novel that could be read as a classic road movie if the main character, Will Bear, at the wheel of his camper van called “The Shepherd's Star”, did not come across on his route of surveillance drones, facial recognition and other robotic critters, witnesses of a future America but not that far away.
Without legal existence
Will, who owns…
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