Title: An exhausting, overwhelming read that is also fascinating and disturbing. But only for those with cast-iron stomachs...
Product review: When the character Flan wakes up one morning to a world on fire, he grabs his burning toupee, his fish Ginger Kang Kang, and sets forth to be reunited with his girlfriend. On their Candide-like journey, they witness mutilated, burnt, pus-and-fly-egg-filled bodies, freakish anthropomorphic creatures and cannibalism. As participants, Ginger gobbles the brains of enemies, Flan cuts throats and strangles others who get in his way, while (at one point), Jesus wonders about performing miracles with dismembered limbs.An exhausting, overwhelming read, 'Flan' is also fascinating and disturbing fiction. It is as though reality had been replaced by a vision that Bosch and Dali would have been proud of. A reader's warning: I think it is fair to say this is really only for those readers with cast-iron stomachs and an inherent interest in the bizarre and freakish.
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