sacred and terrible air by robert kurvitz (trans. group ibex)

 This was the first novel I've read in a while that has such a strong and, perhaps, obvious philosophical grounding. Novels written in present tense are also rare. Altogether the effect was piecing together not a story but a historical event, that had already happened, slowly and diffusely. The prose is fun and atmospheric and hard to follow. Because of the philosophical conclusiveness of this story, I don't really have a desire to play the video game.