Het Ministerie van Buitengewone Zaken
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789041411365 (9041411364)
Publish date: May 2007
Publisher: Uitgeverij Anthos
Pages no: 396
Edition language: Dutch
So as much as I dislike short stories. I really felt like this looong (415 page) book should have been a short story. I found the topic interesting (coping mechanisms of family during a political coup and resulting "disappearances"); I also respected Englander's attempt at literary appeal with all...
I haven't read Englander's collection of short stories, but the fact that most people rate them above this novel is surprising to me. I have a hard time imagining a short story collection I could love as much as this novel and its characters.
Surprise! Surprise! What life throws at you cannot be understood. There is no logic or reason to what happens. At best, all you can do is try to accommodate yourself to the cards dealt you. More specifically the book concerned one Jewish family and what happened to them during Argentina's Dirty Wars...
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