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Hertz He hertz9hef9d8 — There are not words to describe how much I adore this book. It's a definite departure from the style of his previous books (all of which I admire as much); it's much less funny (though still often wryly humourous), and belongs much less to the magical realist style. De Bernieres deftly intersperses the life of the fictional Turkish town of Eskibahce at the time of the Great War with an account of the history of the times and the life of Mustafa Kemal. It's a period and a region which I didn't know a great deal about, and I felt as if I had come away from the book with some new knowledge of the last days of the Ottoman Empire, and the beginnings of the Turkish Republic. De Bernieres also brings a high degree of irony to his work, especially when he is disecting the history of the region, the intertwined cultures of 'Greek' Christians and 'Turkish' Muslims, and the way in which they are forcibly divided at the end of the war. It's not an easy read in points; de Bernieres uses a lot of different characters and viewpoints throughout the book, and some of the characters, when recalling their former lives, ramble quite a bit (if quite believably so). There is not the same level of humour to help the reader through some of the tragedy which befalls the characters as, for example, you get in Corelli's Mandolin. But I think it's still a wonderful book, and well worth the read.

刘 凯威 liukaiwei — Non-fiction. Memoir, travelogue, and history. Andrew X. Pham leaves his life in the US to ride his bicycle through Vietnam, the country where he was born, the country that put his father into a labor camp, the country that forced his family to flee to America when he was ten years old. This took me a while to read because it was a difficult book. Not difficult to read -- it was almost too easy to read, Pham's humor and lyricism made his ride through Vietnam so accessible I could feel its beauty as easily as I could feel its poverty and corruption, but that was the problem. I could only read a few chapters at a time before I got too depressed to go on. It's an excellent book, well written, descriptive, and painful. As a warning, it does deal with suicide, gender issues, torture, and forced internment. Also gastrointestinal distress. It was hard to read, but worth the discomfort. Four stars for its beautiful language and storytelling.