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A review by jess_mango
Amok by Stefan Zweig
4.0
Short Story? Novella? Call it what you want. I rate this one somewhere between 4 and 4.5 stars.
Amok is a tale of a tale. The narrator is on an ocean liner headed from India to Europe when he meets another passenger on a dark deck. This mysterious passenger hides mostly in the shadows and offers the narrator a drink and begins to tell his story. The man is a German doctor who was assigned to a remote station in the Indian countryside...hours from the nearest town. He is not living his best life. Then a white woman shows up at his door. The doctor wavers back and forth between his professional duty as a doctor, his personal desires and pride. So begins the doctor's slide into running amok.
This was a very intense story that just hooked me right in. I definitely had a few "oh no he didn't!" moments. :) I will definitely look into reading more stuff by Zweig.
Amok is a tale of a tale. The narrator is on an ocean liner headed from India to Europe when he meets another passenger on a dark deck. This mysterious passenger hides mostly in the shadows and offers the narrator a drink and begins to tell his story. The man is a German doctor who was assigned to a remote station in the Indian countryside...hours from the nearest town. He is not living his best life. Then a white woman shows up at his door. The doctor wavers back and forth between his professional duty as a doctor, his personal desires and pride. So begins the doctor's slide into running amok.
This was a very intense story that just hooked me right in. I definitely had a few "oh no he didn't!" moments. :) I will definitely look into reading more stuff by Zweig.