Invisible by Paul Auster

This book doesn’t have speech marks for the dialogue which annoys me greatly – I know authors think it is very arty and clever to ignore punctuation but it makes a book much harder to read. The author has also played around with the grammar which switches from first to third person which is no doubt also incredibly arty and clever.

Despite the style irritations I quite liked this novel, which is about a young man who witnesses a murder and struggles with his conscience. He has a few affairs along the way including (possibly) one with his sister. Somehow this book is not as pretentious as that description makes it sound, possibly because the characters are actually quite well written.