Crashman

In this Kafkaesque mystery, a man, with memories of a beautiful young girl, is seemingly caught in a cycle of plane crashes.


* Caution: contains transcripts from original CVR (cockpit voice recordings). May be disturbing to some individuals.


“I feel nothing. Therefore I am nothing.” The unnamed narrator of this disturbing novel appears to exist in limbo, drifting around his former haunts, trying to piece together the fragments of his life. Again and again he finds himself back in a plane crash; all roads lead to it. Colting unfolds the story in vivid, dreamlike fragments. It’s an odd, brilliantly controlled piece of writing, which you read as if assembling bits of a broken mirror — that immediately breaks again. Fascinating."

- Kate Saunders, THE TIMES