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Confession with Blue Horses by Sophie Hardach β book review
βA year or so after my mother died, I received an unexpected inheritance.β In Confession with Blue Horses Sophie Hardach captures the fraught atmosphere between East and West Germany. When Ella, a rather aimless thirty-something year old, comes across some of her mother’s diaries, she’s drawn back to her birth city, Berlin, where, assisted by…
1980s, 20th century, 3.25 stars, Adult, Berlin, CHILDHOOD, cold war, Confession with Blue Horses, drama, east and west germany, england, family, female authors, German, German British Author, Germany, HISTORICAL FICTION, LITERARY FICTION, LONDON, MEMORY, mothers & daughters, museums, MYSTERY, politics, published in 2019, read in 2020, siblings, Sophie Hardach -
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy β book review
For readers in want of an incisive and creative account of life in East Germany, I strongly recommend picking up something by Christa Wolf. I think that from now on I might stick to Deborah Levy‘s non-fiction. While I’m glad to see that many of my friends and other readers were able to enjoy this…
1980s, 1st pov, 3 STARS, bad love, Berlin, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, booker longlist 2019, British author, cheating, cold war, Deborah Levy, east and west germany, england, existentialism, female authors, feverish, Germany, historians, Hyped new releases, illness, introspective, Jewish, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, LONDON, mental health, paranoia, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, SEXUALITY, stylised prose, surreal, The Man Who Saw Everything, why the hype
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