06Literary fiction

The Index of Forgetting

He alphabetised what he could not keep.

Written by Ilya Marren

A retired indexer begins compiling an index to his own life, and discovers that alphabetical order is the cruellest possible arrangement of a marriage.

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Published
5 October 2023
Extent
402 pages
Format
Paperback, sewn
ISBN
978-1-9998-0128-3

Contents

  1. iA–D
  2. iiE–L, with omissions
  3. iiiM–Z

Notices

  • Formally daring and quietly wrecking. Marren’s best before The Silent City.

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About Ilya Marren

Ilya Marren worked for nine years as a sound engineer for public radio before publishing anything, and it shows: his novels are built out of what people do instead of talking.

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