Tree of Codes is a haunting new 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.
