Conatus Çeviri Dergisi Sayı: 7 itibaren Otonom Yayıncılık içinde LIT biçim

Borja Muñoz borjamunoz158e — Very good start but it doesn't keep its promise. Of course it is very well written. Simon Mawer is a past master at language and is very, very careful in choosing exactly the right word to express feelings. The trouble is that after a while you get the feeling the author is showing off his talent to you. And he'll keep taking you back to that glass room until at the end of the book you can't stand it anymore... The glass room - the center piece of a smashingly modern villa built in the 1920s for a rich Jewish auto-maker and his gentile wife - is the crucible through which the whole story of this family winds and unwinds. There is unfortunately too much unwinding and the plot never "grabs" you. After a while, you don't really care what happens to the people. You get slices of life and just as you get interested and finally "enter" the book, the author drops you and starts on another slice of life. This picking up of the reader and then dropping him off seems to be a rather common habit of authors who like to think of themselves as authors of "literary fiction". I have a rather strong feeling on this point (ant that's the reason why I rated it only 3 stars in spite of the excellent writing): it seems to me that literary authors could borrow a little from genre authors in terms of structure and plot that ensure that a book is a page turner. Why on earth can't literary books be page turners too?

Rudy Shaheen rudyshaheen1 — This book was a little hard to read for any length of time...The writing is pretty much cut & dry. But it IS filled with great information, a lot of subject which other books fail to touch on.

Julien Saint juliensain38f6 — 1934 NYC. Good read!

Fernando Emmanuel fernandoemmanuel — ** spoiler alert ** 2011 is my year to de-clutter and getting this book read is part of that effort. I don't remember buying it and have no idea how long it was sitting on the shelf, but wanted to give it a chance before donating it or keeping it if I loved it. Unfortunately, I didn't love it. I liked this book ok, but didn't think that the story was all that original. The title character, Kathryn, is awakened by an employee of her husband's airline, Robert, who tells her that her husband Jack's plane went down off the coast of Ireland. The story follows Kathryn and her daughter, Mattie, as they deal with the grief of losing a husband and father. Kathryn & Jack's history is explained in a serious of Kathryn's memories the go back to when they met and end with when he left for his last flight to London. Not too surprisingly, all is not as it seems with Jack and as Kathryn grieves, she begins to learn her husband's secrets. Her journey takes her to London where she learns of Jack's secret life. Throughout, Robert is Kathryn's constant companion.