Fermentation Book

I only bought this book because I was intrigued by its premise of a pregnant woman with heightened appetite for sex having cravings for various kinds of cheese in the middle of an unsually sweltering summer in a nameless town in Europe and because only a used copy was available at cheap price. But boy was I not disappointed. This is not your usual story of most novels. In fact, there little plot to begin with. The book is comprised mostly of narration and vivd description. This is not an erotica in true sense of the word but there is a lot of sex and a lot of it weird sex. So, if you like novels with good plotlines and less sex, then look away. If you are fond of poetic prose with detailed vivd descrption of little things and incidents, then this is for you. I loved how the author describes quite a few scenes in detail such as breaking of a goose egg on protagnist's pregnant belly and proceeding to have sex while keeping the yolk in tact on her navel, a body being fished out of river, protagnist's observation at a crowded cheese shop, a submission and sex scene at barn among cows, protagnist giving birth to her child, protagnist watching from a distance a woman's face being shaved by a man in front of a large mirror which turns into her being fucked and then man slitting her throat and dumping her body in a bonfire and then catching the protagnist and raping her in front of the fire, Virgin Mary and an angel from a painting in a church going into bedroom and having sex etc. Of course, some these are Odissa, the protagnist's dreams and some are real. I liked the way the protagnist remains nameless until almost at the end her name is sopken only once.

Read it for Jacob's beautifully crafted prose and unusual premise. Don't bother much about sex, it's just incidental. Concentrate on build up of every scene. It would help if you read it during scorching humid heat of summer or pouring rain of monsoon. A satisfying short read.