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Komedie In Mineur (1947)

by Hans Keilson(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9055158771 (ISBN13: 9789055158775)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Van Gennep

review 1: "As they climbed the steps to their bedroom and walked past 'his' door, they shyly and silently looked at the brightly painted wood. The black door handle remained at the horizontal, as always. But it seemed to them that the door was closed in a way it had never been closed before."This excerpt tells us the closure of this penetrating novel, with a wonderful mixture of prose and poetry. When I first read this, 'The Book Thief' first came into my mind and undoubtedly, the two bore a striking resemblance. The sad thing about this is that the translation produced multiple flaws. I guess when you read a book and you find a little bit trouble reading the lines, you will come into conclusion that there is SURELY a problem. The characters, Wim and Marie, throughout the book, re... moresonates the ordinary yet deep human emotions set during the World War II. It's great!
review 2: Beautifully written, haunting, and quirkily funny, this is a bizarre hybrid of Holocaust story, human-condition drama, and black humor that could have gone on much longer than it's short 160-odd pages. Even with it's brevity, the story and characters are wonderfully imagined and fully fleshed, and the nonlinear storyline gives the novella a sense of depth and history lacking in some novels many times as long. Deeply moving and easily relatable, without being overly weighty, this was a surprising and excellent quick read. less

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