literature

A novel of gadget communication

As a lover of literature, I am the first to applaud the creative brilliance of the epistolary novel: Nabokov's Ada, Walker's The Color Purple. Hell, even the Griffin and Sabine series provided a unique tactile approach to "eavesdropping" on people's correspondence.

But I'm not sure I could get excited over reading pages and pages of fictitious text messages. The Finnish publisher, Tammi, thinks I, and you, will.

The Last Messages by Hannu Luntiala is a novel of 1,000 SMS messages. The novel is the story of an IT guy who drops out of … Read more