Umbrella by Will Self
A dense, stream-of-consciousness chronicle spanning the 20th century, it traces a woman stricken with encephalitis lethargica after wartime factory work and her decades-long catatonia until an experimental L-DOPA treatment in the 1970s prompts a fragile awakening. Through the probing of a psychiatrist and interwoven voices from her family, the narrative ricochets across time to explore memory, identity, and the psychic toll of industrial modernity and war, blurring past and present while questioning the limits and ethics of medical intervention.
- Published
- 2012
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 390-420
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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