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Glückliche Ehe (2010)

by Rafael Yglesias(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Klett-Cotta

review 1: I loved this book not only for the story but for the way it was written. The narrator, who is facing his wife's incurable cancer, alternates chapters by telling what they are going through now as his wife prepares to die with stories of his life with his wife starting with when they first met. And he does this without losing the reader, I only found myself confused about the timeline on one occassion. It is a moving story that brought tears to my eyes many times.
review 2: I have never read a book before where the loss of a loved one to cancer is treated in this way. The switching back and forth from current day struggles to say good-bye, to the reflection on the couples earliest days was such a great way to really feel that you know characters deeply. The a... moreuthor brought such reality to the pain of letting go of a loved one, and the fact that the relationship was exposed as one with real struggles, human difficulties and not the typical "perfect storybook marriage" was refreshing. I admit the correlation between the wife's death and their first sexual encounter in the last chapter seemed to take away from the heart wrenching reality of her death... But maybe that was the intention of the author. I'd be curious to hear what others thought of the final few paragraphs. less

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