by Jim Crace
I found this to be an extremely moving and beautifully written book. As you learn more about this couple it makes you think about lost opportunities and just as they are beginning to rediscover each other its all taken away from them.
This opens with a grisly murder in a beautiful spot and such counterpoints are the nature of the story and its telling. One thread of chapters starts near the “end” of the story and goes back (initially, but then forwards too), while the other thread starts many years earlier and only goes forward, ...
A beautiful study of character and emotion.
Joseph's grasp on Celice's leg had weakened as he'd died, but still his hand was touching her, the grainy pastels of her skin, one fingertip among her baby ankle hairs. Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell, just look at them, that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand w...
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