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Best European Fiction 2010 (2009)

by Aleksandar Hemon(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1564785432 (ISBN13: 9781564785435)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Dalkey Archive Press

review 1: This was due at the library before I could finish all of it. A few stories stuck out to me and I really enjoyed them (the one about Zinedine Zidane was my favorite). But I think contemporary fiction like the pieces chosen for this book aren't my thing. I appreciate the writing and what's happening with it, but the style overall isn't my favorite. That being said, from what I read, I think Hemon curated a good and well-represented collection.
review 2: This was a challenging read in many ways, but I was glad of the experiece. Since it was a fiction collection rather than a short story collection, some of the pieces left me confused and unsatisfied without understanding of the point or "ending", but there were a few pieces that struck me & I believe will stay wit... moreh me such as "Resistance", about a chess teacher's effect on a group of schoolboys over a few weeks, and "The Orphan and the Mob" which was incredibly funny... especially the strange demise of each priest in the story. I was also drawn to some of the futuristic pieces, like "The Murderer" & "Full Moon"...I enjoyed most of the pieces though a lot of them left me wanting more. I'm not sure if I'm just not reading them correctly with my Western sense of story but many of the pieces were underwhelming. Overall, the collection was profoundly sad, leaving me with a sense of what the psyche of the Eastern European must have had to cope with over the last 20-25 years which I deeply appreciated. less

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