The laws of physics are different here: everything is soft and yielding and in tune with your moods. After fifty pages I wanted to curl up and live in it.
What makes this book so deeply affecting is that the world it offers you is the most charming and wonderful fictional environment I've encountered for years. Well fuck you, Boris Vian! And fuck everyone else that wrote reviews making this sound like a cuddly love-fest! Did you all stop reading after 150 pages, or what? YOU WERE KILLED BY THE ANDREX PUPPY, THE CUTEST CREATURE ALIVE. And just as you start to press his cuddly little body into yours, OH SHIT WHAT THE FUCK his sharp little teeth are ripping into the soft flesh of your throat, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ANDREX PUPPY and he's growling away, claws slashing, AAAUGH arterial blood is spurting all over the grass and the daisies and OH MY GOD YOU'RE DEAD. The Andrex puppy, say-Īw, look! It's the Andrex puppy! C'mere, little fella! And he bounds over to you, his little tail wagging away, birds tweeting in the background, ah the warm sun on your face.Īnd then – just as you open your arms to give him a big hug – suddenly you realise that there's a slightly rabid look in his eye. You know what reading this book is like? It's like you're sitting there having fun, the sun's shining – and who do you see bouncing towards you but the most adorable, cute little character you can imagine. Beautiful, oneiric, sexy, deadpan, linguistically inventive – and then in the end remorselessly tragic. Chick and Colin's money woes force them to sacrifice their carefree lives to soul-crushing work, and even the suicidal mice wear themselves out trying to restore the lustre to the kitchen tiles.
Chick squanders his share of Colin's money on rare editions of Jean Pulse Heartre, and Alyssum decides her only recourse is to murder the philosopher whose books are ruining her husband. Typically generous, Colin gives a quarter of his fortune to his best friend Chick so he can marry Chloe's friend Alyssum.īut a lily grows in Chloe's lung, and Colin must spend his remaining fortune on the only available surrounding her daily with fresh flowers. The instant he sees Chloe, bass drums thump inside his shirt, and soon the two are married. Colin is a wealthy young aristocrat, a slim, innocent creature who loves easily. The world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses cocktails, the kitchen mice dance to the sound of sunbeams, and the air is three parts jazz.
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