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The Storm (2005)

by Margriet de Moor(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0307264947 (ISBN13: 9780307264947)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Knopf

review 1: The book does an amazing job realizing for the reader the devastation that was wrought by the 1953 flooding of The Netherlands. The interplay between the national scale and the personal scale makes the experience very vivid. STill, there was something missing with in the basic quality of the writing for me that keeps the book from getting higher marks. It was like I could feel the author there, the whole time, manipulating the characters as suited the needs of her story.
review 2: The best thing about this book was that it took place in a country I have not read much about: The Netherlands. The description was tantalizing - look alike sisters trade places for a weekend then one is unexpectedly caught in an awful storm and flood and thought to be dead. The autho... morer writes in detail about the dead sister's last hours in such a manner that I found myself thinking perhaps she did survive after all. The disappointment when I realized she did not ruined the whole book for me. less

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