Ein kleines Restaurant. Eine außergewöhnliche und verträumte Inhaberin. Ein Viertel, in dem jeder willkommen geheißen wird. Das sind die Zutaten für Agnès Desarthes Roman „Mein hungriges Herz“. Im Mittelpunkt steht die etwas verwirrte, verträumte aber grandios kochende Myriam. Sie erfüllt sich ei...
Written in a mainly stream-of-consciousness style, we learn first-hand what motivates the heroine of the novel. Since this method is sometimes deceptive because it's so subjective, you're not sure whether to trust the narrator. The storyteller is a 43-year-old French Jewish woman by the name of M...
I loved the writing in the book so much that I would go back a few pages and reread sections every time I picked it up. I didn't like everything about the main character, especially the nature of her ultimate sin, but I identified with her inner voice. Her view of herself and her own twisted na...
I am very torn with this book about whether I liked it or not. The writing was beautiful, but the story, not so much. It starts out very good, but it takes an inconceivable and rather distasteful turn about 3/4 of the way through. I appreciate books and the topics that they deal with, when dealt...