Great House
3 journalers for this copy...
This is one of the best books I have read in a very long while. I had never heard of Nicole Krauss before reading this book. Now I will be looking to read more of her books.
Easy, quick read - it is not. I had to keep glancing back to previous chapters to help me and in some respects it was a book that really gives your brain a 'work-out'...
It's somewhat like a jigsaw puzzle - Krauss keeps slowly feeding you yet another piece of the puzzle and right up to the very end I was not sure how she was going to conclude the story. I loved her detail in writing and the slow way she builds it all up to the final 'climax'.
Yes, a very, very good say I.
Easy, quick read - it is not. I had to keep glancing back to previous chapters to help me and in some respects it was a book that really gives your brain a 'work-out'...
It's somewhat like a jigsaw puzzle - Krauss keeps slowly feeding you yet another piece of the puzzle and right up to the very end I was not sure how she was going to conclude the story. I loved her detail in writing and the slow way she builds it all up to the final 'climax'.
Yes, a very, very good say I.
You have been tagged. Hope you enjoy this book as much as I did - has to be one of my best reads for a long while...
What a powerful, complex novel, written in an intense and beautiful style, so deeply humane. I was impressed by the way Nicole Krauss conveys the protagonists’ emotions and their inner lives – and what they lost ("There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you’d forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularly life with other people bearable"). There isn’t a main protagonist but four: three very withdrawn characters eaten up by their solitude, and a fourth one who is quite different – angry, not withdrawn, for a reason that will become obvious. They are all lost in their own depths. The four fragmented stories are interwoven in a very subtle, mysterious way, the reader has to find out the full story, the story about the desk – "an enormous, foreboding thing that bore down on the occupants of the room it inhabited".
Very recommendable.
Very recommendable.
Journal Entry 5 by ApoloniaX at Wishlist Tag Game, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, September 11, 2011
Arrived today! Yay, thanks so much for tagging me with this. I loved this author's previous book (The History of Love), so I look forward to reading Great House.
Sad to say that this book disappointed me very much. I found the overwrought literary style alienated me from the stories, and too many unanswered questions remained for me at the end of the book. My main problem was probably that the voices of the different protagonists sounded exactly alike.
Released 12 yrs ago (3/14/2012 UTC) at Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Will be given to HesterCarstens, who is going to release the book in either Istanbul or Barcelona.