A short book, but clever. According to Brink, exploring the possibility of how everything could be different. Done on a couple of levels. First, an almost surreal level where the main character leaves and returns to his studio cottage, but when he returns, everything has changes - the layout, his wife, children (none in initial life), even the colour of the door one time. Also, on a more human level, where he remembers an affair he had with a passionate, fully alive coloured woman (takes place in South Africa) where he made the choice to not run off with her - and regrets how his life might have been lived differently, more passionately. His affair also bumped him off another road of marrying his fiancee and joining the established, moneyed white elite of the country.
Well-told in sparing language.
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