Seven Lies
by James Lasdun | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780099483687 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780099483687 Global Overview for this book
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From the back:
"Stefan Vogel, a young man growing up in the former East Germany, longs for love, glory and freedom - yearnings that express themselves in a lifelong fantasy of going to America. The hopeless son of an ambitious mother and a kind but unlucky diplomat, Stefan lurches between his budding, covert interests - girls and Romantic poetry - to find himself embroiled in dissident politics, which oddly seems to offer both. In time, by a series of blackly comic and increasingly dangerous manoeuvres, he contrives to make his fantasy come true, finding himself not only in the country of his dreams, but also married to the woman he idolises. America seems everything he expected, and meanwhile his secrets are safely locked away behind the Berlin Wall. A new life of unbounded bliss seems to have been granted to him. And then that life begins to fall apart..."
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Picked this up at a sale table at the Academic Bookstore in Helsinki.
"Stefan Vogel, a young man growing up in the former East Germany, longs for love, glory and freedom - yearnings that express themselves in a lifelong fantasy of going to America. The hopeless son of an ambitious mother and a kind but unlucky diplomat, Stefan lurches between his budding, covert interests - girls and Romantic poetry - to find himself embroiled in dissident politics, which oddly seems to offer both. In time, by a series of blackly comic and increasingly dangerous manoeuvres, he contrives to make his fantasy come true, finding himself not only in the country of his dreams, but also married to the woman he idolises. America seems everything he expected, and meanwhile his secrets are safely locked away behind the Berlin Wall. A new life of unbounded bliss seems to have been granted to him. And then that life begins to fall apart..."
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Picked this up at a sale table at the Academic Bookstore in Helsinki.
I enjoyed this, a lot, but am too tired to write even a short review. Instead, I copy this from The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/feb/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview15
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Next off to Joanazinha who chose this from the First Sentences VBB based on this:
"A woman threw her glass of wine at me."
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Next off to Joanazinha who chose this from the First Sentences VBB based on this:
"A woman threw her glass of wine at me."
Thank you very much Annimanni! The book arrived savely in The Netherlands and it looks like an interesting read.