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Minous Geschichte (2012)

by Mette Jakobsen(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Bloomsbury

review 1: I started this book with some skepticism and continued worrying about it for quite a while. I don't, as a rule, like "dreamy" books and this is what this appeared to be. However this book as far more than that and the dreamy surface coating is just that. The deep emotions and beautiful storytelling left me close to tears with both sadness and joy at times, and I don't often find that in a book. There is something profound about The Vanishing Act that is hard to explain, and I urge everyone who enjoys a good story to read it.
review 2: In 'The Vanishing Act', we are introduced to Minou, a little girl who lives on an Island with her father (a philosopher), Boxman (a magician), No-Name (Boxman's dog), and Priest (a priest). Minou's free-spirited mother has disappe... moreared, and while everybody else on the island accepts the likelihood of her being dead, Minou refuses to give up hope that perhaps she's just on vacation. Throughout the book there is talk of "the war". Both of Minou's parents were somehow involved in the war, and both came to the island as a place of solace afterward. Minou's mother was an artist who found excitement in spontaneity and adventure while her father clings to his shared heritage with Decartes and continuously searches for the "absolute truth".Minou finds a dead, frozen boy on the shore and her father places him into a room vacated by his wife. He plans to keep him until the next boat of supplies arrives, at which point the boy will be placed on the boat and taken to the mainland. Her father is certain that this boy will reveal the absolute truth, and so he loses himself in meditation and conversation with the dead boy while Minou is left to herself to figure out how this boy and help her to determine where her mother has gone.This book is written very simplistically, making it a good, lazy summer read. It's not something that kept me on the edge of my seat, but it did hold my attention. I enjoyed it. less

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