Well, I am not much of a patriot in reading fiction. In fact, I read what I had to at secondary school and then I moved quite swiftly to worldwide and well-known novels, usually in English (simply because of the lack of translations).
But I decided to give it a go this week. I took up the bestselling author of my nationality of 2009 and this is where it went off to the deep end
I am a Chuck Palahniuk fan (this means that you can't really surprise me), but what I read made me feel a little ashamed... I don't know what to make of a novel, whose main character is a male prostitute, indulges in intercourse with chucks of women for 200 pages, then starts taking hormones and has a baby at the end.... is this THE BEST my nation can do?
Gosh I know there are only 6millions of us, but this is what we read the most last year... where is the core of the problem? I think I may give up on national literature once and for all