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Book Of Clouds (2009)

by Chloe Aridjis(Favorite Author)
3.4 of 5 Votes: 5
ISBN
0802170560 (ISBN13: 9780802170569)
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English
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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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nesa_l1996
Poetic and understated and, I sense, a book that's often misunderstood. Just read it and loved it.
Malcolm1912
Only read the beginning but found it to be depressing and too full of loneliness.
Ban
Brilliant, understated novel, full of poetry.
nessa
Someday I want to see a fog like that.
natalia
Lovely prose
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