I would say this book is definitely worth reading. I liked the way the main characters told the story; however, I found Lenka's story written in a way that did not draw me into her character or to the story. However, Josef's story was almost poetic and passionate.Another positive point was the in...
This is a love story as well as a Holocaust novel. 60 years after they were separated by World War II, Lenka and Josef meet at the wedding of their respective grandchildren. The novel goes back to their meeting in Prague before the war and tells the story of both of their lives. Josef's parent...
This story did not even seem like a fiction but more like a memoir of several different very good people who poured out their souls and emotions on the pages of the book. They were all affected by the horros of military dictatorships, either WWII or Pinochet's regime in Chile, one way or the othe...
Summer, 1890. Van Gogh arrives at Auvers-sur-Oise, a bucolic French village that lures city artists to the country. It is here that twenty-year-old Maurguerite Gachet has grown up, attending to her father and brother ever since her mother's death. And it is here that Vincent Van Gogh will spend h...
Want your book to be considered DEEP by default? Set it in Japan.Bonus points if you don’t use contractions, don’t let the characters interact or even speak much, and change scene every four sentences, even if nothing is happening. And if you happen to know what Wikipedia is, you can write a hist...
Octavio Ribeiro is a rising movie star in Chile when, at the request of famed poet Pablo Neruda, he agrees to serve as a media trainer in the presidential campaign of Salvador Allende. This involvement exposes Octavio and his family -- especially his wife, Salomé -- to the ruthless kidnapping and...
All he had thought about was getting his family out of Chile. In Sweden, he wanted Salomé and the children to be safe, to be free from the evil that he had seen for the first time. He believed Sweden would afford them a new life. A clean slate, the chance to start over. Clearly the suffering Salo...
She tells him no. “I carry this myself.” He does not push her. He cannot read her quite yet. He can only smell the fear on her. To him, it’s the scent of a hunted animal. She is restless and suspicious. Her expression does not soften as they walk up the narrow streets toward his house. She focuse...
She returned home and immediately peeled off the dress. “I miss hearing you play,” her mother said gently. “Your father has been in agony all day. Won’t you help clear my head with something beautiful?” At first, Elodie wanted to resist her mother’s...
Solange November 1939 What I learned from Alex during my last visit with him was that his family’s apartment was not above their shop on the Rue des Écouffes as I expected, but actually in the sixteenth arrondissement. “Like many of the Jewish middle class, we’ve since mov...