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A great work by a master storyteller - Rated
There is something about this book that reminds me of the way some of the greatest British TV of the 50s-70s worked - there is the same patience expended in creating a certain unsettling atmosphere, with the shocks that pepper modern TV confined to the very last moments of the drama. With Asleep in the Sun, as in The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares slowly accretes the details of a man's life before giving them an extraordinary twist. Here his hero is the very ordinary watchmaker, Lucio Bordenave - a man buffeted by the whims of the nagging, neurotic wife he adores, the lustful sister-in-law he cannot understand, the domineering father-in-law he fears and the cattish and aged Ceferina, whose familial protectiveness causes as many problems as it solves.
One day his wife is spirited away to the local asylum and Lucio must make do with a series of inadequate substitutes - the maternal Ceferina, the loyal dog that shares his wife's name, the predatory sister-in-law, even his wife herself when she returns to him from the asylum, somehow changed. Refusing to accept anything save the "real" woman he loves, Lucio goes to the asylum to try to discover what has happened to his wife.
Asleep in the Sun takes what could have been a throw-away piece of sci-fi and turns it into a very real tale of a man's search for his place in society and for love in an often indifferent world, of compatibility and all those little things that make one feel truly "at home". It is a sensitive and satisfying book.
One word of advice - where Bioy Casares only confirms the reader's worst fears near the very end of the novel, the blurb on the back blows the whole thing in its first paragraph.
