This threat has taken lives and the research

Alone and lost in the maze of his memory. A man wakes up in a House that he does not, completely amnesiac, with only for index a little word on a table who taught him his name: Eric Sanderson. More troubling still, he learns in the same note that his old self disappeared from this world. The letter recommended to go to a psychiatrist, Dr. Randle, which should answer all the questions that beset him. But, in response, the doctor will the dive into greater confusion in explaining that this type of phenomenon already happened to him on numerous occasions. The new Eric Sanderson will therefore have to dive into the maze of his former life marked by the tragic death of a companion called Clio Aames offshore of a Greek island. The regular arrival of packages and letters prepared its intention by his former self come punctuate the monotonous and lonely life he leads. These regular messages will enlighten him a little more about his past but especially make discover another reality of the things that he must protect themselves did not entirely disappear. This threat is embodied as a conceptual shark, a "ludovicien", born waters of thought, of letters and human communications flows. This threat has taken lives and the research. To put an end to this human hunting, the hero is going for an enigmatic Professor, Trey Fidourous, doctor of the language.

Throughout the story and the adventures of the hero, Steven Hall put the reader of a real and familiar to a world of strange and unknown world, a kind of parallel dimension. At first blush, this book may seem confusing. "And sleep into oblivion as a shark in the wave" request a few efforts to the reader, always obvious in summer period, step but worth the candle. Borrowing some references from popular culture such as "Alice in the country of wonders" of Lewis Carroll, or "The teeth of the sea" films of Steven Spielberg or "Videodrome" by David Cronenberg, the book itself includes press clippings, patterns in any genre and drawings created based on letters.

Surprise step

However small flat. This book borrows primarily from another title released there are twenty-five years of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, "the end of time". And this is no coincidence that Steven Hall resumed at the beginning of one of the chapters a quote from the Japanese author summarizes it only the mood of his own story: "what we see before us is only a small part of the world." We are used to think, this is the world, but this is not true at all. The real world is a darker and deeper than that. "This descent is so strong that most of the originalities and twists of the work of Steven Hall fall a little flat so they borrow from the work of his master Japanese. At the time, the effect of surprise disappears completely, including the conclusion of the story, which fully incorporates "the end of time". For the reader who does not know the Japanese book, the originality of "And sleeping into oblivion as a shark in the wave" remains whole. Few make the effort to enter into this singular universe and that he no fears not then to jump into the sea of thoughts without the apprehension of a fin emerge on the horizon.