Books by Caleb Crain
language
English
review 1: Jacob, an American and a recent graduate from Harvard, spends a year in Prague teaching English. The year is 1990, the Velvet Revolution has just brought an end to Communism, but it'll still be a while before Capitalism truly arrives. This setting was so interesting - especially ...
language
English
review 1: I struggled with this one a bit. Lovely prose, incisive political observations, but little depth of character. For all its sexual frankness, aspects of the protagonist still felt withheld, repressed. The text was so flat, in fact, that the pretty remarks about light and temperatu...