3.5 stars For me, this book was just okay. I never really got into the main character. He just basically made me tired and bored. I thought after his marriage he had slowed down and that he had become normal, but then it wasn't long and he was back to his original ways. I didn't like the ending, but...
Original Title: La petite fille de Monsieur Linh This story is only about 130 pages long, this means a lot is left for the reader's imagination. Where does Monsieur Linh precisely come from? But the story is a very beautiful and subtle one, focussing on how unfitting someone can feel in a new envi...
Philippe Claudel's Monsieur Linh and his child is a wonderful, original and haunting study of an an elderly refugee from an unknown war torn country. His son and daughter-in-law have died in the war and he is left to care for their only child and his grand-daughter.This a short book with only 13...