Book of Clouds
by:
Chloe Aridjis (author)
Adrift in Berlin and with no desire to return home to Mexico, Tatiana cultivates solitude while trying to distance herself from the city's past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin are more alive to her than people she passes on her daily walks. When she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive...
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Adrift in Berlin and with no desire to return home to Mexico, Tatiana cultivates solitude while trying to distance herself from the city's past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin are more alive to her than people she passes on her daily walks. When she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive historian Doktor Weiss, her life becomes more complex.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780701184254 (0701184256)
Publish date: July 9th 2009
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Reading this was like lying on the grass and watching clouds. After two hours nothing truly happened, although something beautiful transpired and you feel like a poet. As the back cover would tell you ‘Book of Clouds’ is about a Mexican woman adrift in Berlin. I quite liked that this immigrant story...
Tatiana is a Mexican expat living in Berlin at the dawn of the 21st century, trying to distance herself from her family and avoiding the development of any new relationships. She takes a part-time job transcribing the notes of an aging historian, and becomes involved with a man she is sent to interv...
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