It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story that proves it beyond all doubt. With this sentence Rene Belletto begins a novel that compresses every genre he has worked in thriller, science fiction, experimental literature, horror into one breathless narrative in which what is at stake is nothing less than our own immortality.
Playing with the expectations of the reader, Belletto constructs a logical puzzle that defies logic, much like the almost-perpetual motion machine invented by the narrator of this novel and his father. What sets the story in (perpetual) motion is a...