BBC BLURB: 4 Extra Debut. Set in Berlin after the First World War, anti-hero Andreas Pum attempts to woo the widow Blumich. Read by Tom Goodman-Hill.
4.5 stars - a fine book, often moving, albeit sometimes to the point of melodrama - flashes of modernist brilliance, but at times quite conventional -- occasionally one can sense Roth is striving for effect, sometimes achieving it brilliantly, sometimes... not quite... an important treatment of the ...
Amazing, but depressing book. I loved the small details about a lost world and its people who lived in the past and the writing was absolutely superb. I often wanted to put it down as I was reading it during a 'fun' weekend and wanted a more upbeat and easier read but couldn't let it go. A classic...
Abandoned half way through. Tedious, gray, half-hearted, no energy. The main character is supremely uninteresting and vaguely irritating. The story is told relentlessy at arms length.
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