I Am No One
A mesmerizing novel about memory, privacy, fear, and what happens when our past catches up with us.After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York University. Though comfortable in his new life, and happy...
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A mesmerizing novel about memory, privacy, fear, and what happens when our past catches up with us.After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York University. Though comfortable in his new life, and happy to be near his daughter once again, Jeremy continues to feel the quiet pangs of
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781101905852 (1101905859)
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
The blurb of this book, coupled with the popular shelving of “Mystery” and “Thriller” on goodreads, suggested that this was going to be something of a high-drama thriller, with a certain hint of personal madness. Perhaps I went into this book with the wrong mindset, but I don’t think that’s the unde...
Jeremy O’Keefe is a German history professor who is an expert on the Stasi and surveillance on the population. He’s lived in England for the last decade and has come home to take up a position at New York University. He renews his relationship with his daughter but suffers from loneliness. As he p...
Now I understand the negative reviews that I've read about this book. What strives to be a thought provoking commentary on the ever increasing use of surveillance by governmental agencies really turns out to be an unfinished story. For how slowly this plot moves along I would have hoped that there w...
I've tried reading this one a few times... The opening is just dull, and flicking through the rest of the book it seems like 50%-66% of it is all boring inner monologue, with only 33% involving dialogue to mix it up. Will try again, by for now I'm putting it aside in favour of other, more interestin...
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