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Gravel Heart
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Gurnah is especially dense. I doubt he can be read quickly. Definitely not an airplane or beach read. But for careful readers like myself, he might be just a thing. Literary fiction. I really liked his most recent novel Afterlives, too.
A fan of coming of age novels I am not. I have long loathed books about children. Proust’s Marcel among them. But it has just occurred to me: a miserable child telling his or her story? Yes, I’m there!
A fan of coming of age novels I am not. I have long loathed books about children. Proust’s Marcel among them. But it has just occurred to me: a miserable child telling his or her story? Yes, I’m there!
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I like the inverted sentence that begins the second paragraph. I can see your head tilting back as you say it.
Thanks to you, I read this incredible book. Based on your reviews, I believe you will find this to be a slow but a deeply, worthy read. I stumbled but somehow persevered until I was absorbed into the rhythm of this universal story. With truth, there is an undeniable sadness: I can’t go on; I must go on; I’ll go on….and hopefully find meaning in my life.