I recently read the 864-page tome A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava, and it was one of the most engaging novels I’ve read in recent years. I’d have to say the author is nothing short of genius. Told from the view point of an attorney, it’s an intellectual and philosophical read.
In The Guardian, literary critic Stuart Kelly called A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava “ambitious, affecting, intelligent, plangent, comic, kooky and impassioned.”
And, I’ve since learned it won the PEN/Robert W Bingham award in 2013.
Here’s the synopsis from Compass Bookstore:
“A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender–one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack–and how his world then slowly devolves. It’s a huge, ambitious novel clearly in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, and it’s told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center. Its panoramic reach takes readers through crime and courts, immigrant families and urban blight, media savagery and media satire, scatology and boxing, and even a breathless heist worthy of any crime novel. If InfiniteJest stuck a pin in the map of mid-90s culture and drew our trajectory from there, A Naked Singularity does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural life today. In the opening sentence of William Gaddis’s A Frolic of His Own, a character sneers, “Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you get the law.” A Naked Singularity reveals the extent of that gap, and lands firmly on the side of those who are forever getting the law.”
From Goodreads:
“Funny, smart and always surprising, A Naked Singularity speaks a language all of its own and reads like nothing else ever written. Casi’s beautiful mind and planetary intelligence make him an inimitable and unforgettable narrator. In De La Pava’s hands, the labyrinthine miseries of the New York Justice System are as layered and diabolical as Dante’s nine circles of Hell. But the Devil doesn’t hog the best lines. There are plenty here to go around.”
I highly recommend A Naked Singularity—especially to those who, like me, are constantly looking for something new and different, with quality writing.
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