Die Kommende Welt Roman
ISBN:
9783833305290 (3833305290)
Publish date: 2007
Publisher: Berliner Taschenbuch-Verl
Edition language: Deutsch
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Art,
Jewish,
Religion,
Contemporary,
Magical Realism,
Judaism
Benjamin Ziskind, a lonely, recently single, New Yorker attends a social at an art museum that is featuring a Chagall exhibit. He recognizes one of the featured paintings as a work that used to belong to his family when he was a young man. On impulse, he takes it off the wall and walks out of the ...
This is a difficult book for me to rate. I'd say 2.5 stars and I'd have liked to give it 3 stars but parts irritated me so much I can't say I enjoyed it overall, nor would I recommend it. For example, the constant referral to the dimples under characters' noses was interesting at first, then predict...
I am adding this paragraph a few days later b/c somehow I think my previous review misses the mark. If I were to read the below review I might not be interested in a novel filled with bizarre philosophical thoughts and symbolism. Think of art, that too can be analysed to pieces and I hate that. It e...
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