Passing time is a meditation on life's many interstitial spaces, in which we spend time waiting for something to happen -- the queue, the waiting room, the place held for two when only one has arrived. It forms the perfect antidote to the headlong rush of our culture.
Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the German by Michael Eskin. Graced with lyricism, THE WAITING GAME is an engaging meditation on the ways in which human beings are forced—and choose—to mark time, from earliest childhood to the final moments of life. This is an unsparing, yet often poetic, essay on the ordeals and pleasures inherent in the universal experience of waiting.