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A review by moniwicz
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
5.0
This book is a masterpiece, an epic, a carefully crafted and insightful piece that can make one laugh and cry and fume and swoon all within the space of a page.
Not a single person I have met who has read this book has not put it in their top ten books and it's really not hard to see why. Bernieres can capture, in around of 500 pages, the fleetingness of life, and injustices, but also its beauty (and this probably in the last 100 too). While there were moments where I could predict what was going to happen (there are after all only 7 possible skeletons for every story?), or events seemed pretty implausible/ridiculous, I never once could think of a way of making Bernieres' writing more perfect. A true literary genius.
Not a single person I have met who has read this book has not put it in their top ten books and it's really not hard to see why. Bernieres can capture, in around of 500 pages, the fleetingness of life, and injustices, but also its beauty (and this probably in the last 100 too). While there were moments where I could predict what was going to happen (there are after all only 7 possible skeletons for every story?), or events seemed pretty implausible/ridiculous, I never once could think of a way of making Bernieres' writing more perfect. A true literary genius.