![]() Margaret, a collector of such "forgotten things", is friendly with in BOIL and his followers, who explore the place and make whiskey. The central tension is created by Margaret, once a lover of the narrator, and in BOIL, a rebellious man who has left i DEATH to live near a shunned area called the Forgotten Works, a huge trash heap where the remnants of a former civilization lie abandoned in great piles. Through the narrator's first-person account, we learn the story of the people and the events of i DEATH. Its first-person narrative is sparse and minimalist, granting the novel a detached and alien quality. The novel's narrator, who is left unnamed, claims to be writing an investigative book on his experiences at i DEATH. ![]() The landscape of the novel is constantly in flux each day of the week has a different colored sun which creates different colored watermelons, and the central building also changes frequently. In this environment, many things are made of watermelon sugar (though the inhabitants also use pine wood and stone for building material and fuel made from trout oil). Set in the aftermath of a fallen civilization, it focuses on a commune organized around a central gathering house which is named "i DEATH". ![]() ![]() In Watermelon Sugar is an American postmodern post-apocalyptic novel by Richard Brautigan written in 1964 and published in 1968. ![]()
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