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dancingdane 's review for:
House on Endless Waters
by Emuna Elon
Particularly haunting given the current rise of nationalism in America. Also very meta, about an author piecing together and writing his own story as historical fiction. Since we never learn exactly what his sister told him, we don't know how much of the story is fact, how much is invention, and how much is a mix.
I did find it a bit of a slog for a while; since finishing grad school, I haven't been able to appreciate "Literature" the way I once did. But it did get better, even the times that were confusing (at least when listening to the book) because past and present were happening concurrently.
And, in spite of Anne Frank, this novel is an excellent reminder that countries like the Netherlands were also under occupied control, and atrocities happened there, too. Now, 75 years after the end of WWII, we tend to just think of Germany, and maybe France, as occupied. And, as I began this review, it's too easy to see how little it would take for the U.S. to go down that road...
I did find it a bit of a slog for a while; since finishing grad school, I haven't been able to appreciate "Literature" the way I once did. But it did get better, even the times that were confusing (at least when listening to the book) because past and present were happening concurrently.
And, in spite of Anne Frank, this novel is an excellent reminder that countries like the Netherlands were also under occupied control, and atrocities happened there, too. Now, 75 years after the end of WWII, we tend to just think of Germany, and maybe France, as occupied. And, as I began this review, it's too easy to see how little it would take for the U.S. to go down that road...