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Book Of Clouds (2009)

by Chloe Aridjis(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0802170560 (ISBN13: 9780802170569)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Grove Press, Black Cat

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 recordings of a historian's book/paper ideas. He's all about Berlin as a place - a place haunted by the past. For that theme, I much preferred Gorra's The Bells In Their Silence (nonfiction). Some description of German people, character, and places around Berlin. But, not enough to give it great value for someone wanting a deeper understanding of Germany/Berlin.
review 2: Chloe Aridjis captures perfectly the feelings of being lost and lonely, yet content, in a foreign but familiar city. Th... moree weight of the city's history is always present. It is heavy and presses in on the reader, as it does the book's characters. I found Book of Clouds to be simultaneously comforting and unsettling - a real feat, in my opinion - and by the end I felt as disconnected from the world as Tatiana is in the novel. It isn't a particularly plot-driven novel, but a meandering exploration of home, self and history. I thoroughly enjoyed that exploration even if, in the end, it resulted in much self-reflection. less

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