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It might be a cliche to say that Hilary Mantel brings historical figures back to life, but I can't put it otherwise. This is an astonishing book that takes the reader into the lives of leaders in the French Revolution. Even as we know how their stories will end - they will lead the revolution and then be killed by it - Mantel manages to maintain suspense. I found myself thinking about this book long after I finished it - I began to see parallels everywhere for the ideas, arguments, and events that surrounded Demoulins and Danton.
Hilary Mantel's work can be challenging to read, especially if you're not very knowledgeable about the historical events she covers. I didn't know much about the French Revolution before reading this book, but the book was so immersive and fascinating that I found myself reading and listening to other things on the topic…
This novel follows the lives of three major figures in the French Revolution - Robespierre, Danton and Desmoulins - from their childhoods in Northern France through to the last terrifying moments of their execution. The book juxataposes private occasions with public events.
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos-an unforgettably compelling masterpiece-tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the…
