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Diese Dinge Geschehen Nicht Einfach So (2013)

by Taiye Selasi(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

3100725255 (ISBN13: 9783100725257)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

S. Fischer Verlag

review 1: Some excellent descriptive passages do not build to make an engaging novel. The scatter approach does not grab me and doesn't build characters as people I can really care about. The relentless use of the present tense is something that just gets irritating after a while. The author may have potential, but for me this novel does not work. I can see why it would tick a lot of boxes for some people, unfortunately it doesn't for me.
review 2: On its surface, Ghana Must Go is precisely my sort of book -- Ghana! Nigeria! Black folks (Africans!) struggling to assimilate in a posh New England world. And who doesn't love a little family dysfunction? But the book felt like less than the sum of its parts. Others have noted the (perhaps overly) poetic language, but that di... moredn't disturb me on its own. I think it was the combination of the prose and the hopscotching between protagonists that made it feel so very overwrought. One is reserved, and seething, another is ashamed, another is violently angry -- it was too much, and for me diminished the power of the language itself as well as the revelation of various plot points. In the end, though, I did find myself crying in a coffee shop reading through the last 60 pages over a single latte. So this is probably closer to 3.5 stars. less

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