![]() ![]() The book has a broad appeal: to both literary audiences, intrigued by Safran Foer's new way of writing and to design and art audiences who will revel in the book's remarkable and unique visual experience. As one character's life is chased to extinction, Safran 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. Tree of Codes is the story of 'an enormous last day of life'. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his favourite 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 Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first - as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. I previously considered Jonathan Safran Foer as one of my most-beloved authors, cherishing my copies of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. ![]() Tree of Codes, is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. Jonathan Safran Foer's newest 'literary' effort does more than fall short of my expectations of him: Tree of Codes plummets face-first from the clouds. ![]()
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