Kukaiņu dzīve

"The Life of Insects" is a challenging read at times, as the characters constantly swap between being human and insects of various kinds. Once I had accepted that, in much the same fatalistic way that the characters themselves accept it, I loved every turn of the story. Despite the Kafkaesque metamorphoses, it has very realistic story lines, showing the different facets of life in a dysfunctional society, with people in complicated relationships. I sympathised with the predicaments of insects dying in strange accidents, and I understood their need to dig burrows and lock out the world