Tree of Codes

Visual Editions Ltd, 2011. Reprint. Paperback in tidy condition. Minor bumping to corners. Contents tight with just a touch of foxing to the page edges. 139 numbered pages with blank versos. Pages look good without obvious tears.

Tree of Codes is a haunting story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. Tree of Codes is the story of an enormous last day of life as one character's life is chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person?s last day everyone?s story. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his favorite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in Jonathan Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice.