The Last Supper - Pawel Huelle

A photo-shot preparation for the modern painting of the Last Supper is to take place on the stage of a theatre in Gdansk. "The Last Supper" tells the stories of four of the participants and the narrator is the fifth one, although we don't learn anything of his personal tale apart form one trip to Jerusalem and one convoluted dream that actually - and startlingly - opens the novel. The narration juxtaposes the events of the day of the photo shot - a day in either a very recent alternative history or a very near but unspecified future, where the city is shaken by a series of terrorist explosions in alcohol shops while the participants make their way ...  Read the complete review