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blubberbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Wow. Fantastisk velskrevet og yderst gennemarbejdet mht information og fakta. Virkelig god forfatter og interessant emne.
julierasmine's review against another edition
3.0
Jesper Bugge Kold kan noget med at beskrive steder, tider og personer så indgående, at de føles levende. Anmeldelse på bloggen snart.
rpjtown's review
5.0
This is probably the best book that I have read this year. The book starts with a murder in the united Berlin in the early 2000s. The victim's son (who he had never seen his father) travels to Berlin in a search to know who his father was and also find himself.
The novel switches between the "current" day and the past (starting in the mid-70s and ending in the present). We see the son find information out, update his views of his father (always to see him as a good man) and then we see the events play out as they happen often differently than his son imagined.
We learn that his father was a member of the STASI (the East German secret police) and it would have been simple for the author to paint him as evil, but as we get into the mind of the father we see why he worked for them and how he was drawn slowly deeper into the STASI.
At the end of the book we again revisit the murder and understand so much more.
The novel switches between the "current" day and the past (starting in the mid-70s and ending in the present). We see the son find information out, update his views of his father (always to see him as a good man) and then we see the events play out as they happen often differently than his son imagined.
We learn that his father was a member of the STASI (the East German secret police) and it would have been simple for the author to paint him as evil, but as we get into the mind of the father we see why he worked for them and how he was drawn slowly deeper into the STASI.
At the end of the book we again revisit the murder and understand so much more.
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