Remainder, by Tom McCarthy

This is a quiet book, but fascinating. I've never read a book with a premise quite like it. The narrator receives a huge settlement for an accident in which something fell from the sky and gave him serious amnesia. Don't worry, it's not one of those amnesiac-gets-life-back thrillers. It follows him trying to become a functional person again, until he has a vision and decides to use his newfound wealth to recreate it, down to buying and rebuilding an entire apartment building, and hiring actors to live in it and re-enact moments he remembers (or at least has visions of). It's surreal...he uses a facilitator--someone he hires to make the things he imagines happen, down to incredibly minute and mundane details. It's a if he is sidetracked from his attempts to return to normalcy, and uses the re-enactments to keep real life at a distance. A really neat book, and written in lovely, spare prose.