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Köpekler Bile (2011)

by Jon McGregor(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

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Fiction

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review 1: This is my second Jon McGregor read (my first being If Nobody Speaks...), and I loved it even more than the first one. It is not necessarily a pleasant reading experience - I found myself on the edge of anxiety and heartbreak throughout the entire book - but it is a rewarding and emotionally challenging read. Imbued with compassion and empathy but never succumbing to sentimentality, this book raises a number of poignant social and personal issues. I came away struggling to understand how a book like this even manages to be written - the skill of the author is breathtaking. If you enjoy thought-provoking literary fiction, I would highly recommend this book. This isn't just fiction, it's art.
review 2: Hmmm not an easy read - either the subject matter or the styl... moree but it is a very good book. The central premise is the finding of the long dead body of Robert an alcoholic, who lived in a decaying flat along with a a number of passing itinerant addicts/ friends. The story is told in a fragmented style switching from friend to friend and inter-cut with the police activity as they take him away and go through the process of determining who he was and why he died. As the novel progresses you learn about Robert's life and the lives of the various other characters and how people can fall through society. The stories are grim and the details dreadful but all have the ring of truth. Very well written, you need to persist long enough to begin to see the pattern though, the beginning can feel rather daunting. less

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