Book Review: “Knife Party at the Hotel Europa” by Mark Anthony Jarman
by James M. Fisher, The Miramichi Reader
In a book that is reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary you will see Italy (primarily Rome and Pompeii) in a magically weird kind of travelogue while our man wrestles with his past and stumbles through the present:
“I consume Italy and Italy consumes me, devours me like a woman. I love it, love the wild sea and crazy cliffs and hilltop vistas and then the smudged slums on the horizon like magic, spires vibrating over the rails like a charcoal etching and we step off the train into the tremors and treasures of each Italian city.”
This book is full of such inspired thoughts and Jarman is a master at putting words on a page like a jazz musician fills the air with myriad notes for your interpretation. Five stars for a very special book, one that is definitely on my “to re-read” shelf.
While not a New Brunswicker by birth, James M. Fisher has lived in Miramichi for over seven years and feels quite at home there. James is an ardent reader whose aim is to highlight New Brunswick authors and publishers, as well as cover subjects of interest to New Brunswickers in particular and Maritimers in general. For more visit his website or like his page on Facebook.


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