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Gone To The Forest (2012)

by Katie Kitamura(Favorite Author)

3.2 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1451656645 (ISBN13: 9781451656640)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Free Press

review 1: A stylistically artistic rendition of the age old story of colonialism--> the rape of a country, a people, the fight to save a dying lifestyle, and all of the analogies that go along with it. The characters are one-dimensional: although I do believe that is an intentional, artistic, choice of the author. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy reading this book. The writing is stylistic, but not lyrical and the story is boring... I really didn't care whether I ever picked it up again or not.
review 2: Kitamura's deceptively simple prose draws the reader into her tale of colossal colonial and personal collapse and keeps one spellbound to the end. The cast of characters runs from an infuriatingly cold land owner, to his ignorant and naive son, to a victimized and victimizi... moreng young woman -- each of them unlikable, each at times sympathetic. And each unwitting participants in the undoing of the world as they know it. The land buckles, social order is breached, and the main characters march (or stumble)on at a time when just doing what one always did is no longer sufficient. Of course there is a price to be paid for such stubbornness, and Kitamura describes it with affecting, stark language that had me alternately holding my breath and rushing forward in the text unable to read quickly enough. less

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