Books by Julia Franck
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review 1: The book was very interesting and I liked the way the characters were developed through the eyes of the main character. The lack of quotation marks often made it difficult to tell who was speaking, and the beginning portion of the novel seemed not to fit until quite a ways into t...
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review 1: I'm sorry but this book was v. depressing as well as creepy. A woman abandons her little boy at the train station? It pretty much lost me there & went steadily downhill after that! Btw,I've read plenty of WW2 novels from the Average German Viewpoint so it wasn't that("Stones From...
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review 1: In reading other reviews, it seems that most everyone loves this book. Don't mind my abandoned rating of 1, you might like it like the others. Me? I just didn't get it. I lost track of the main characters, and for the longest time, I couldn't figure out if it was a flashback ...
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review 1: I found this was a really slow book; after the 'prologue', which was actually a scene from the end of the story, it then took time to really get going. It largely tells the story of sisters Martha and Helene, especially the latter younger sister, as they are brought up in Germany...