From all the books of contemporary lives, focused on the moment and its full existential dimension, The Anthropologists by French-based Turkish author Aysegül Savas resonated the most with how I see some isolated fragments of life.
Asya - the storyteller, whose name is shared only far into the story - and her partner, Manu, are a young couple started to look for a house of their own. They are both far from their unnamed countries, each from a different country, living in an unnamed city in an unnamed country. She just got a generous grant for documenting daily life, which allows her to contribute to the first house installment.
Their lives, as presented in the book, do not go through any tremendous drama. They are not from there, but growing native to the place in their own ways. She may regularly have video calls with her ailing grandmother. They have friends, few, not necessarily native.
They are just getting taken by the flow, do have ephemerous daily conversations, and we are allowed to see just a sequence of it. The book can continue for ever, or as long as the protagonists are alive, but we are just cut short from their existential flow. It´s no expectation on the reader´s behalf, just eventually to be there. It´s like you are wathing a movie or some pictures in the exhibition.
I had access to the book in the audiobook format, read by Kathryn Aboya.
The Anthropologists will definitely make into a movie, short- or medium-long, for the diversity of views - like in landscapes - it has. Also, would love to have some time to come back to this author, as she authored others contemporary books before.
Rating: 4 stars
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