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A review by erikas_bookshelf
Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss
5.0
Nicole Krauss did it again!
I'm standing in front of my computer screen trying to find the words to describe this amazing book.
When I read "The History of Love" I thought she nailed it and that she would have never wrote something as good as that book. But I was wrong... she did it... She wrote an amazing story about Samson Greene, a man who loses 24 years of his life in a moment and he has to face the consequences of his loss.
Krauss touches along the way a lot of very delicate topics as: what if you wake up one day and all you knew was gone. What if all you were left with were the memories of your younger self, but you were still be able to process the world around you as an adult? Would you want your life back? Would you start over? Would you miss what you have lost if you didn't know what it was in the first place?
The book is divided in 4 parts that function as 4 different stages in Samson life. First he loses his memory and he struggles with the sense of guilt he feels every time he looks into his wife's eyes. Then - out of curiosity or just because he has nothing left to lose - he "donates" his mind. He allows a doctor and his team of scientist to put a memory that belongs to someone's else's in his head (What would you do if someone - in the name of a greater good, a way to be able to truly empathize with someone - asks you to accept into your own head a memory that belongs to someone else's? Would you do it? Would you donate one of your own?). In the third part he had to deal with the consequences of his decisions/actions. And in the fourth and last phase he accepts and understand what he has lost and moves on with his life and - as the rest of us - with his regrets.
An amazing story BEAUTIFULLY written and I wish my english was better to be able to give it justice. A must read!
I'm standing in front of my computer screen trying to find the words to describe this amazing book.
When I read "The History of Love" I thought she nailed it and that she would have never wrote something as good as that book. But I was wrong... she did it... She wrote an amazing story about Samson Greene, a man who loses 24 years of his life in a moment and he has to face the consequences of his loss.
Krauss touches along the way a lot of very delicate topics as: what if you wake up one day and all you knew was gone. What if all you were left with were the memories of your younger self, but you were still be able to process the world around you as an adult? Would you want your life back? Would you start over? Would you miss what you have lost if you didn't know what it was in the first place?
The book is divided in 4 parts that function as 4 different stages in Samson life. First he loses his memory and he struggles with the sense of guilt he feels every time he looks into his wife's eyes. Then - out of curiosity or just because he has nothing left to lose - he "donates" his mind. He allows a doctor and his team of scientist to put a memory that belongs to someone's else's in his head (What would you do if someone - in the name of a greater good, a way to be able to truly empathize with someone - asks you to accept into your own head a memory that belongs to someone else's? Would you do it? Would you donate one of your own?). In the third part he had to deal with the consequences of his decisions/actions. And in the fourth and last phase he accepts and understand what he has lost and moves on with his life and - as the rest of us - with his regrets.
An amazing story BEAUTIFULLY written and I wish my english was better to be able to give it justice. A must read!