(I'm sorry for the lack of detail in this review--I read the book weeks ago and don't have notes to look back on!) This book is geniusly written and completely unique. It's hard to give a synopsis or description that doesn't give too much away, but in a hugely broad and general sense, this book qu...
This book was not for me more a study of social etiquette...but I got it as a "throw out" from the library and only paid a few pennies...just as well as I did not keep and threw away in the trash/bin
This is a book with much ado about nothing. Okay, maybe that is an exaggeration. It just felt like that. Fifty two chapters, and it took thirty chapters for anything interesting to happen. I had to force myself to read this book. I am happy to report the last twenty chapters were pretty good. It ju...
A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of politeness - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But the empty words hide a terrible conflict ...
Finally finished and I feel like I have returned from high school, having been given an assignment to read one of the longest, most nonsensical books ever written. Or to be fair, one of the most nonsensical books that I've ever read. Unfortunately, this book fell into the wrong hands. Mine. Apparent...
HEARTBURN (A small, windowless room in a suburb of Amsterdam. PAUL sits at a table. There is a vacuous expression on his face, and he seems unaware of his surroundings. A young man in uniform escorts a woman through the door, waits until she is seated, and goes to stand behind PAUL. A dim ligh...
Herman Koch is a Dutch writer whose writing certainly has a class that can stand on its own. Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch is an exquisite prose whose characters impresses strongly on our mind. The lively human landscape Koch creates seems innocent of any big comment on life and he ...
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