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Open Stad (2011)

by Teju Cole(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

9023467981 (ISBN13: 9789023467984)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

De Bezige Bij

review 1: A fantastic book, fluent, though it contains a lot of wisdom (I had to look up several things!). I would have given it 4, or even 5 stars, but close to the end something happens. Another person reaveals something, and the good, and very human, doctor does - nothing! It can be that the person who reveals, is remembering things totally wrong. But in that case, knowing the doctor is a psychiatrist, why doesn't he react?!? Suddenly the good doctor becomes another, not so good person.
review 2: I didn't know quite what to make of this one. It was certainly well written, and the lack of narrative thrust meant it was the perfect before-bed book: it's easy to spend a chapter wandering around with Julius around a city. And there's a revelation late in the book that puts... more everything before it into question, and makes you reconsider the entire book. But all in all I thought it was just a little too glancing, too elusive, the author's intent hard to grasp. less

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