Books by Chloe Aridjis
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review 1: I have been looking forward to reading Chloe Aridjis' second novel, Asunder, ever since I read her Book of Clouds (previously reviewed). The language of both novels is stunning. Aridjis has a fabulous eye for description. Asunder follows a young woman who is a guard at London's N...
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review 1: If you want insight into being a barely functioning depressed Jewish Mexican expat living in Berlin, go for it. I didn't find the main character to be very interesting. Or sympathetic. When she wasn't irritating me, I was just bored. She works part-time transcribing tape recor...
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review 1: A good book to read before going to Berlin, as I am, particularly if you think of Berlin as a city of ghosts. The narrator, a young Mexican Jewish woman adrift in Berlin, is pretty disconnected, so you don't meet a lot of Berliners. But you do meet lots of places, some in depth...
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review 1: This book was on a list of recommended books about Berlin put together by the UK's Guardian. I enjoyed it as a very lyrical character study of both the city and the book's protagonist, Tatiana. So much of what is written about Berlin is historical around WWII. I wanted something ...
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review 1: Having just returned from my first visit to Berlin, I read with a map of the city on my lap. The city itself is the book's main character, a city where one never knows what ghost from the past may turn up in an improbable place--on the S Bahn or in Alexander Platz. What I'll reme...
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review 1: A stunningly beautiful novel of a young Mexican-Jewish woman wandering the streets of Berlin after the fall of the wall. Her walks explore the underlying history of WWII, of Gestapo and Stasi. She wanders isolated, only slightly engaged with the people around her, connected to he...