The Third Policeman - Flan O'Brien Pin

The beginning of the sharpness... The novel follows the adventures of an unnamed narrator who having committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, ends up in a two-dimensional police station where he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and the view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." With the help of his newly found soul named "Joe," he grapples with the riddles and contradictions presented to him by three eccentric policemen. Darkly comic gothic horror.