DeFoe is a museum guard in love with a young Jewish caretaker of a small Jewish cemetery. She becomes obssessed with a Dutch painting called "Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam" and abandons her life to look for nobility of life in Amsterdam for Jews in the late 1930s.

Strange and sad book. I was fascinated when reading it in my holidays, but found it somehow irritating and confusing. It starts so peaceful and yet is full of tragedy which drops into the story step by step. Have not really made my mind up about the book, but I think that I won't read another book by the same author.

RELEASE NOTES:

Bei der Ladies Night.

RELEASE NOTES:

Will be released at the English meet up.

sound intesting enough for me to put it on the already huge pile I took today from the english meet-up. the cover was also very appealing to me
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My Review: June 2007

I gave up about halfway through the book. It just doesn't keep me interested. The story is so very slow!! So many passages with nothing said! And although I read in a review what's gonna happen later in the book (so, at least something is happening then) I'm not interested in finishing it.

RELEASE NOTES:

English Meet-Up.

picked it up at the english meet-up

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