Why read The Notebook?

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Twin brothers, left with their evil grandmother at a time when war has blurred all distinctions between good and evil, learn to steal and kill in the name of survival and create their own loveless morality

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2 authors picked The Notebook as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau

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This is a book like no other! With its first sentences, it gripped me, and I couldn't put it down till the very end. The same happened to everybody I recommended it to.

Formally, it is part of a trilogy, and I loved to read all three of them. Its style is dry and almost merely reporting, and yet it is emotionally involved in a powerful way.

Is what we are told meant to be real? Or is it only the product of a traumatized mind trying to cope with war, poverty, pain, abuse, and the endless yearning for what…

From Cordelia's 3 favorite reads in 2023.

Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau

Author

This is a book like no other! With its first sentences it gripped me, and I couldn't put it down till the very end. The same happened to everybody I recommended it to.

Formally it is part of a trilogy. Its style is dry and almost merely reporting, and yet it is emotionally involving in a powerful way.

Is what we are told meant to be real? Or is it only the product of a traumatized mind trying to cope with war, poverty, pain, abuse, and the endless yearning for what is lost? Are the twins, the protagonists of this…

From Cordelia's list on The best literary fiction about what goes on in a person's mind.