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The Gordian Knot. Bernhard Schlink (1988)

by Bernhard Schlink(Favorite Author)
3 of 5 Votes: 1
ISBN
0753828464 (ISBN13: 9780753828465)
languge
English
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publisher
Phoenix
review 1: Under the guise of a thriller, Berhard Schlick proposes some of the themes he has used in his weightier novels: the obsession of love, the bending of boundaries, the internal conflicts we have. He does a great job in portraying his landscapes whether they are Province or San Francisco. Ironically his main character is a translator and that is what Schlick does too, he translates for us the varieties of experiences which can only be called amour fou.
review 2: Eigentlich habe ich den Roman angefangen zu lesen, weil die Geschichte in Südfrankreich beginnt, aber Marseille und die Landschaft werden kaum beschrieben. Dann wechselt die Geschichte nach New York und San Fransisco. Die Suche nach der geliebten Frauen und der Aufklärung des Rätsels in New York ist dan
... moren wesentlich interesssanter und wird stärker durhc die Atmosphäre dieser Stadt getragen. Nicht überwältigende, aber solide Spionagegeschichte. less
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lizzy54322
This books gets two stars only because it was a nice, mildly entertaining vacation book.
Susa
not what i expected from the author of the reader...not a great mystery/thriller
meemae
3.5* labs spiegu romāns
theora
Nothing memorable...
olgats
Boooooooooo!
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