Vladimir is a very interesting novel I think.
I picked this up after seeing it in a video recommending new contemporary novels. I however didn't read it until now, letzing it sit on my shelf, unread for I think a year.
I am very happy I didn't read it earlier though, because I think had I read it a year ago I wouldn't have really understood it the way I do now.
This novel is a very interesting insight-look and deconstruction of what we as a western society have come to see and view as the "normal" marriage and just how performative marriages now-adays can seem.
Even more than that it is a novel about having to correlate ones own views about martiage and afulthood with the ever changing sociocultural landscape of the modern age.
The characters in this book are very intriguing, and even tjough the book is rather short, I felt like that was a perfect way to make the reader like and dislike them in the little time we spend with them. Their all very much multifaceted and need to be looked at very scrutiningly to really get a good understanding of them and their actions.

In conclusion I liked this book but have to admit that due to the topics it deals with and the way it does I wouldn't particularly recommend it to just anyone, which is however not to say that I would not recommend it at all. Because, as I said, this is a very multifaceted book with very intereszing character design, which I think we'll get to learn a lot from in the future.