This is a Dutch book from a well known Flemish author. There's no translation, but you can translate it as 'The art of crashing'. It's one of my two books that I got from the author, signed after visiting a lecture of him.
The book starts with the car accident he got a couple of years ago. He describes it very detailed, like: 'I saw the fibres of the airbaig. They were very white and all shaped in a V - form that fit in each other'. From that point, he lost a couple of seconds of his memory. Those missing secinds are the start of a couple of stories. At first they don't have to do anything with each other, but then, slowly, the radars in the reader's brain start to work and see that in one way or the other, the stories fit in each other, as absurd or weird it can be. The seconds that are missed, come together in the fictional island 'Sandy', where people live that in a sort of 'limbo', not knowing what happened to them, what their story/name is, ever searching, ever waiting...
Translating the book wouldn't do any good, because the author is an artist with words, thoughts, pictures...
It's not the easiest book, but given time to it to read it, it's a gem.