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The Truth About Love (2009)

by Josephine Hart(Favorite Author)

2.94 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1844085600 (ISBN13: 9781844085606)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Virago

review 1: I totally zoned out again during this book. Took place in 1960's Ireland. A German guy lives in town post WWII and some other guy dies. This book was very European, which is why I zoned out. And not being current either, I didn't care at all. Sorry I don't have more to say. If you like "European literature"-type books, then pick it up. Otherwise, I am lame. I don't know what happened. I needed a zone book.
review 2: I stumbled upon this book in the demise-of-Border's sale and was pleasantly surprised by it, in spite of the slower-going sections that drove me to Wikipedia to revive my Irish history--it begins in Ireland in the '60s but ends in present day, so it spans The Troubles and after. At its center is a family broken by personal grief, whose story is some... moretimes delivered by "the German," a self-exiled man who escapes the horrors of his memories of WWII by settling in their town. Fascinating study of grief, loss, and guilt in personal and national realms, and how different people handle different types of loss (running away or staying), though you could say that all loss is fundamentally the same. For such a brief book, it delves deeply into different kinds of love, too (steady and natural, obsessive and consuming). It's written from several points of view, and Hart handles each voice distinctly and well. There is something specifically Irish about this book, in comparison to other Irish novels I've read, in that the focus widens to include a broader national scene that mirrors the struggles of the individual characters. less

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