The point being that people are unknowable. It’s not until you remove the dustjacket that you can see the image that lies beneath. The photographs are very beautiful though Wikipedia quotes those who interpret the series very differently. Google brought me #StillPuzzled to his website where it explains that the series is a tender photoessay on a photographer’s love for a woman, his wife. The designer Susan Dean is listed, and there’s a mention of a photograph on board from a series called ‘The Eye of Love’ by the Swiss photographer René Groebli. With a dust jacket consisting of cutout spheres and hemispheres on a blue background, the cover design of this latest short novel from Julian Barnes made no sense to me until I saw its name in the credits.
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