Sweet Chocolate

Strictly speaking Sweet Chocolate first part of the trilogy together with A Long Strange Trip and Towards the End of the Night is one of the countless variations of Billy Wilders boy meets girl.But its not that simple - is the beginning the end or the end the beginning? There are time leaps flashbacks changes of perspective and even overlaps caused by them. Reality dreams and prophecies inner monologue dialogues and chats. Helpful puzzling or completely missing chapter headings ... Sounds like a labyrinth and hopeless confusion - but surprisingly its not at all. The narrative is entertaining and comprehensible. A lightness pervades the short novel although at the center is a difficult contradictory multi-layered self-centered failed spirit who after too long a period of seclusion attempts to find his place again in the midst of life.As you read all the little pieces of the puzzle fall into place. And with parts 2 and 3 which are both sequel and supplement the big pieces too.