Patrick Dewenter Dewenter من عند Princethorpe, Rugby, Warwickshire CV23، المملكة المتحدة
One of the best books I've ever read! The ending completely blew me away.
Seminal fiction from Latin America. The book of magical realism
Ok so I didn't like this book because it scared me to death, but it's a good book!
An old fashioned adventure fantasy tale, told in a cheerful grandfatherly way. A very fun book, like the literary equivalent of comfort food.
I stumbled upon this book in the demise-of-Border's sale and was pleasantly surprised by it, in spite of the slower-going sections that drove me to Wikipedia to revive my Irish history--it begins in Ireland in the '60s but ends in present day, so it spans The Troubles and after. At its center is a family broken by personal grief, whose story is sometimes delivered by "the German," a self-exiled man who escapes the horrors of his memories of WWII by settling in their town. Fascinating study of grief, loss, and guilt in personal and national realms, and how different people handle different types of loss (running away or staying), though you could say that all loss is fundamentally the same. For such a brief book, it delves deeply into different kinds of love, too (steady and natural, obsessive and consuming). It's written from several points of view, and Hart handles each voice distinctly and well. There is something specifically Irish about this book, in comparison to other Irish novels I've read, in that the focus widens to include a broader national scene that mirrors the struggles of the individual characters.