Book cover for All This Has Nothing To Do With Me

All This Has Nothing To Do With Me

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08 September 2016
160 pages
9781447274971
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Piecing together emails and Facebook stalkings, this study of a broken heart is set to be one of the coolest novels of the year
Monica Sabolo dissects an unhappy love affair with as much precision as CSI: Miami
How does a beautiful young woman - a little crazy, sure - end up consulting a spiritualist? . . . Let he who has loved without becoming a monster throw the first lighter . . . All This Has Nothing To Do With Me is a small, deeply singular work . . . The success of this extremely amiable book owes as much to its unique ambition as its disparate form. The work is carried by a constant sense of self-directed irony, and an unfailing sense of humour.
It's very rare to be surprised in this way, like being eaten by a suddenly carnivorous flower. Imagine that you're watching an episode of Girls and suddenly you find yourself in a Fritz Zorn story, and never have you been tortured you so tenderly. In this comic novel, Monica Sabolo stresses that the aim of the work is to tackle the basic principles, general facts and laws emerging from the emotional pique known as heartbreak. It's about offering a complete working tool, a reference book, to comprehend and to deepen one's understanding of this ordinary disaster.