When I started this book I was overwhelmed by great sadness. Had I not been reading it for book club I might have stopped. However, once you can accept the conditions the protagonist must live in, it is a beautiful and inspiring book.I especially applaud the authors sensitive treatment of the C...
Here's another book that "everyone" else loved and I found to be just OK. Well, really, some parts of it were just lovely, beautifully written. What I had trouble with was the rent collector herself, and the almost immediate change in her personality when she moved from rent collector to teacher...