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Remember Me
Book by Azzopardi, Trezza
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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About the author
Trezza Azzopardi
17 books43 followersTrezza Azzopardi is a British writer.
She was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and a Welsh mother. She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and currently works as a lecturer there. She also has an MA in Film and Television studies from the University of Derby.
Her first novel, The Hiding Place, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000 (a significant accomplishment, since first novels are not often shortlisted for the Booker). Her novel also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was also shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her second novel, "Remember Me", was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. "Winterton Blue" was longlisted for the 2008 Wales Book of the Year. She also writes short stories, and readings for BBC radio. Her books have been translated into 17 languages.
Azzopardi currently lives in Norwich, in the east of England.
She was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and a Welsh mother. She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and currently works as a lecturer there. She also has an MA in Film and Television studies from the University of Derby.
Her first novel, The Hiding Place, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000 (a significant accomplishment, since first novels are not often shortlisted for the Booker). Her novel also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was also shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her second novel, "Remember Me", was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. "Winterton Blue" was longlisted for the 2008 Wales Book of the Year. She also writes short stories, and readings for BBC radio. Her books have been translated into 17 languages.
Azzopardi currently lives in Norwich, in the east of England.
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August 1, 2009
I received this book as a gift from a friend and I have to say it isn't something I would have thought to pick up in a store.
This is a story of a woman who has lived a life filled with strife and sadness. It begins with her, old and homeless, thinking she has been robbed of something precious to her. She begins to narrate her life up to that point, starting from a very young age and intertwines it with her current need to find what was stolen.
I really enjoyed this book and finished it off in just a few days as I was so intrigued with this character. It's a great read, but, fair warning, this isn't a happy story in the least.
This is a story of a woman who has lived a life filled with strife and sadness. It begins with her, old and homeless, thinking she has been robbed of something precious to her. She begins to narrate her life up to that point, starting from a very young age and intertwines it with her current need to find what was stolen.
I really enjoyed this book and finished it off in just a few days as I was so intrigued with this character. It's a great read, but, fair warning, this isn't a happy story in the least.
May 19, 2009
Homeless and squatting in a house in England, Patricia is shocked when a girl enters her house and takes the only possessions that she has: a suitcase containing a wig and various other bits of nick knacks and mementos that one collects through out life. To Patricia, they are her possessions, her belongings and items with which she has marked her life.
Being forced to get her belongings back also forces Patricia to look back on her life up until her suitcase was stolen. How, for instance, did she end up as a street walker when she had her whole life ahead of her? We are taken along on Patricia’s trip as she moves back and forth between the past and present, so that we see both sides of her. What she was and what she is now.
Born in the 1930’s, Patricia’s mother is taken by “ghosts.” Mentally unwell, her father sells all the family heirlooms to help pay for her mother’s medication. When her mother dies, Patricia is sent to live with her grandfather. Soon after, her father stops visiting.
Life with her grandfather goes well enough until Patricia is sent to her aunts, where things are supposedly better and the depression has not reached as far. When Patricia becomes pregnant, she is sent back to her grandfathers in disgrace, only to find the house he use to live in empty. Alone in the world and not a soul to call her own, she flees into the forest and lives there until she is found by a fortune teller who tells her that she is his salvation, that she has the gift.
Soon, Patricia is caught in a downward spiral, both in the past and in the present. Patricia knows that if she is to solve the mystery of the present, missing suitcase and all, she must also solve the mysteries of her past. For it is in the past that the answers for the future are to be found.
This is an incredible novel. From start to finish it is told with beautiful language and even more beautiful imagery that makes Patricia’s wartime world come to life. Azzopardi is a magician with words, evoking pictures, visions, emotions and feelings from the depths of compassion. “Remember Me” is so beautifully written, I was in awe while I was reading.
Patricia is also a likable character. As you get to know her, Patricia becomes more than a homeless woman, more than a squatter in an abandoned England home. The characters are alive in this book and they will haunt you afterwards. Patricia may be the unluckiest person in fiction that I have ever read about; but even though this book may be a little bit depressing, it’s more than worth the read.
What I admired most about this novel as the story of Patricia and Azzopardi’s ability to convey human suffering and make it so horrible yet so beautiful at the same time. She reaches into the consciousness of her heroine and makes her more than a two dimensional character. After reading “Remember Me” I thought of all the homeless people I pass every day and wondered if their lives hold the same tragedy.
This is a heartbreaking novel, but an amazing one. It really serves to drive home the idea that all is not what it seems. That, unless we are willing to go beneath the surface, we will never really know the whole story behind someone’s life. Written with ease and beauty, “Remember Me” is an incredible achievement. I will be haunted by it for some time.
Being forced to get her belongings back also forces Patricia to look back on her life up until her suitcase was stolen. How, for instance, did she end up as a street walker when she had her whole life ahead of her? We are taken along on Patricia’s trip as she moves back and forth between the past and present, so that we see both sides of her. What she was and what she is now.
Born in the 1930’s, Patricia’s mother is taken by “ghosts.” Mentally unwell, her father sells all the family heirlooms to help pay for her mother’s medication. When her mother dies, Patricia is sent to live with her grandfather. Soon after, her father stops visiting.
Life with her grandfather goes well enough until Patricia is sent to her aunts, where things are supposedly better and the depression has not reached as far. When Patricia becomes pregnant, she is sent back to her grandfathers in disgrace, only to find the house he use to live in empty. Alone in the world and not a soul to call her own, she flees into the forest and lives there until she is found by a fortune teller who tells her that she is his salvation, that she has the gift.
Soon, Patricia is caught in a downward spiral, both in the past and in the present. Patricia knows that if she is to solve the mystery of the present, missing suitcase and all, she must also solve the mysteries of her past. For it is in the past that the answers for the future are to be found.
This is an incredible novel. From start to finish it is told with beautiful language and even more beautiful imagery that makes Patricia’s wartime world come to life. Azzopardi is a magician with words, evoking pictures, visions, emotions and feelings from the depths of compassion. “Remember Me” is so beautifully written, I was in awe while I was reading.
Patricia is also a likable character. As you get to know her, Patricia becomes more than a homeless woman, more than a squatter in an abandoned England home. The characters are alive in this book and they will haunt you afterwards. Patricia may be the unluckiest person in fiction that I have ever read about; but even though this book may be a little bit depressing, it’s more than worth the read.
What I admired most about this novel as the story of Patricia and Azzopardi’s ability to convey human suffering and make it so horrible yet so beautiful at the same time. She reaches into the consciousness of her heroine and makes her more than a two dimensional character. After reading “Remember Me” I thought of all the homeless people I pass every day and wondered if their lives hold the same tragedy.
This is a heartbreaking novel, but an amazing one. It really serves to drive home the idea that all is not what it seems. That, unless we are willing to go beneath the surface, we will never really know the whole story behind someone’s life. Written with ease and beauty, “Remember Me” is an incredible achievement. I will be haunted by it for some time.
December 3, 2007
What a strange and beautifully written novel. It's written in reverse timeline, as the protagonist (called at different times, Lillian, Patsy, Beautiful, Princess and Winnie), a more-than-a-little loony bag lady, attempts to recreate her own life while at the same time trying to forget some of the more painful parts.
The reader is left to figure out what is truth, what is a figment of Winnie's imagination, what is a result of her mental illness, and what is just pure creation on her part in order to keep herself from feeling pain too deeply.
The storyline brought to mind the movie "Memento" where the main character suffered from short-term memory loss and had to tattoo reminders onto his body. Like "Memento," "Remember Me" plays with the idea of truth and memory, and the secrets we tell to -- and keep from -- even ourselves.
The reader is left to figure out what is truth, what is a figment of Winnie's imagination, what is a result of her mental illness, and what is just pure creation on her part in order to keep herself from feeling pain too deeply.
The storyline brought to mind the movie "Memento" where the main character suffered from short-term memory loss and had to tattoo reminders onto his body. Like "Memento," "Remember Me" plays with the idea of truth and memory, and the secrets we tell to -- and keep from -- even ourselves.
June 8, 2018
A funny story which actually sadly did retake place & happened. Characters maybe remind you or remind you of someone Butalwalys remember we are surrvinving
July 31, 2016
This book is thoroughly depressing, but I kept reading because I hoped there would be a happy ending. Azzopardi creates the believable voice of Winnie, a bag lady squatting in an abandoned shop. The first-person narration is so matter-of-fact that you forget Winnie isn't used to talking to people: there's a part where she says something like, "I think what I was saying came out a bit muddled. I may have started shouting." Those two sentences perfectly sum up how she is seen, and it's thought-provoking.
There's an interesting theme of names running throughout the book: Winnie begins life as Patsy; when she goes to live with her grandfather he calls her Lillian, Mr Stadnik (the lodger) calls her Princess, and Joseph (her lover) calls her Beauty.
Above all, I just wanted Winnie to be happy, but I knew right from the beginning that anyone who ends up as a vagrant is unlikely to have had a good life. The periods of happiness in Winnie's life were all too brief, and I put this book down feeling utterly miserable.
There's an interesting theme of names running throughout the book: Winnie begins life as Patsy; when she goes to live with her grandfather he calls her Lillian, Mr Stadnik (the lodger) calls her Princess, and Joseph (her lover) calls her Beauty.
Above all, I just wanted Winnie to be happy, but I knew right from the beginning that anyone who ends up as a vagrant is unlikely to have had a good life. The periods of happiness in Winnie's life were all too brief, and I put this book down feeling utterly miserable.
April 18, 2020
This just wasn't my book. The main character is an older lady who is homeless is portrayed as rambling and not have clear thinking. That makes it very hard to follow her present day story line because it is a mess of thoughts that are hard to make any sense of. Right when you start to get even a little invested in her flashbacks to childhood you are disrupted by another present day jumble. It makes it impossible to get invested in either part of the timeline. Not to mention the character has no distinct personality so there is no reason to get attached to her or feel sorry for her struggle. I'm not even sure I understood exactly what happened at the end which is always frustrating.
August 7, 2011
If you are a fan of Azzopardi's first novel _The Hiding Place_ do not go into this book with high hopes. The story of and elderly women who has suffered from a hard life is revisited in a style much like the first novel but just doesn't "own up" to it.
If you can force yourself to continue reading this very dragged out story you find that it just becomes very very unrealistic and you just can't wait to get to the end.
If you can force yourself to continue reading this very dragged out story you find that it just becomes very very unrealistic and you just can't wait to get to the end.
March 10, 2022
I wasn't thrilled with this book. One of those now where was I at in the story. I picked this book up in my thrift shop having never read a book by Azzopardi. I like to try different writers because you might find what you have been looking for. maybe not.
November 30, 2022
It jumped around too much, I was lost most of the time, but wanted to know what happen to her. Not much of an ending, which never sits well w/ me.
February 10, 2009
Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi was a struggle, at best, to read. Several times I almost put the book away thinking why bother, but somehow I managed to get through. It was not worth the effort to me.
The book is about the life of an older woman who is half-loony. It starts with her living the streets and getting her small amount of belongings stolen by a girl. The story then recounts the woman’s childhood, and how everyone that had ever meant anything to her left or abandoned her at some point. She isn’t quite right in the head throughout. In the end, we learn that this crazy lady stole a baby for a day during her lifetime, and shaved the baby’s head. That baby grows into the girl who steals the woman’s possessions. They meet, discuss why it all happened, and then the loony-lady burns everything she owns in an abandoned building with her in it.
That's the gist in a nutshell. It's a difficult story to follow, not to mention the lack of quotations and strange formatting, as well as shifts in time and place. I would not recommend this book.
The book is about the life of an older woman who is half-loony. It starts with her living the streets and getting her small amount of belongings stolen by a girl. The story then recounts the woman’s childhood, and how everyone that had ever meant anything to her left or abandoned her at some point. She isn’t quite right in the head throughout. In the end, we learn that this crazy lady stole a baby for a day during her lifetime, and shaved the baby’s head. That baby grows into the girl who steals the woman’s possessions. They meet, discuss why it all happened, and then the loony-lady burns everything she owns in an abandoned building with her in it.
That's the gist in a nutshell. It's a difficult story to follow, not to mention the lack of quotations and strange formatting, as well as shifts in time and place. I would not recommend this book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 15, 2011
I am drawn to stories about someone whose identity is in question or isn't what they thought it was. No idea why. This one was interesting but ultimately unsatisfying. I always come away unsatisfied from stories in which the main character is a victim, with little or no agency. Also, Hewitt was clearly a villain right from the start, but his villainy somehow lacked drama for me. The bad news about him just kind of dribbles out over the course of the story, so that the really shocking revelation about him felt anticlimactic. Still, this wasn't a bad book. It was interesting to me how the author tied possessions to identity. The story opens with a theft of possessions - although we don't find out until nearly the end that the thief had a motive for wanting the objects every bit as powerful as Winnie's motivation for keeping them. This is a great opening for a book that is about the theft of a young woman's identity and control over her life. And possessions have meaning all through the story.
April 17, 2012
5/13/09 - The description of this novel had all the elements I tend to love -- a shift of past & present, gradual revealing of family & life history, a little bit of mystery & some family secrets. And while I enjoyed it, it didn't grip me quite as much as I think it could've. I found myself confused a lot within the story -- & that may have just been me or might possibly have been the fact that I listened to it on audio & had more trouble distinguishing time frames & such. There are several different issues going on in this story, including some mental illness, neglect, exploitation, homelessness, a little bit of borderline paranormal, etc. I almost think the author tried to tackle too much information & wrap it up neatly in one story, but there was something unsettling there for me. However, if you'd ask me how I'd do it better, I don't know that I'd have an answer. This book reminded me in a lot of ways of Maggie O'Farrell's "The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox", which I read fairly recently. I don't think this one was quite as good, but the potential is there.
May 22, 2011
This story about a mentally unstable homeless woman is satisfying if unsettling. It retraces the protagonist's life as she struggles along after tragedies, abandonments, and war. It is a little obtuse in places, resulting in a potentially anticlimactic revelation towards the end (before the final twist). One problem it suffers from is employing a somewhat elevated vocabulary and description for someone who is supposed to be so mentally deficient. It makes for a rich read, however, and one well worth it.
July 18, 2020
Okay so....um
This book was fine. I am not trying to be mean to the author of this book! However, this book was fine, and so boring! Man! The writing style did not click with me! And most importantly......
WHERE WERE THE QUOTATION MARKS!?!?!?!? Like when people would speak, there wasn't any quotation marks around when someone was speaking and it was just a very awkward and unpleasant reading experience because of it! I mean who ever edited this book (If there were any editors to begin with which I'm going to assume their were) just why???? Why?????? Where on earth were the freaking quotation marks!!!! Is it suppose to make the book look more fancier or whatever???? Whatever the reason was, there's literally no excuse to not include them!
Also, the writing style was just so flowery. I like detail in a book when it's relevant. But oh my goodness I don't care about the details about something that's just not important. Also when it's brought up again and again and I'm just like, "I get it. You already described this not at all important thing before....why on earth are you talking about it again????" If so many of these unnecessary details were just taken out of the book, the book itself would be so much shorter. I just wish that the book would get to the freaking point of whatever story was trying to be told! (I feel like I've also said this in another book that I've read. Because there is definitely this similarity....but anyways)
Without spoiling anything.....omg why on earth was this story told? The entire time that I was reading this story I was always thinking to myself, "Why does this story exist?" Like I really didn't enjoy the story at all! Winnie the protagonist, I guess, seemed to have no ambitions at all! Like I get that her entire life was unfortunate. However! It just seemed like that she literally had no control in her life and that things were just happening to her for her entire life. And she never seemed to fight back either! I suppose the one thing that I could take away from this book would be that....okay yes being nice is important. But! But if you just allow things to happen to you, you don't stand up for yourself, are a pushover, are not assertive in any way, etc. Then people are going to use you! As people did to Winnie her entire life. And as a result, she lived the sad life that she lived. I think that even though this isn't what the book was trying to say at all, in my opinion, this book serves as a warning that if we aren't assertive in our life with what we want, whether that be to ourselves or to others, we are going to suffer the consequences. [To be clear I understand that she had a mental illness, and I was able to sympathize with her; however, just the way that the story was told I guess was just not connecting with me. Like I don't know really how to explain my feelings on this properly. But again, I just feel like if the story itself was fleshed out more properly, it would have had a bigger effect because also that ending was a mixture of unsatisfaction and what the actual f*ck.]
In the end, I gave this book 2 stars and not 1 star because I don't hate it. Like I really didn't like this book, but it wasn't problematic at least. In any case, I really don't recommend this book to anyone. Unless you're someone who isn't assertive so you could learn about the potential dangers of not being assertive in your life by reading this book. Otherwise again, omg this book was so boring. But on the bright side, I'm learning what I'm liking and not liking in books as I get back into reading.
This book was fine. I am not trying to be mean to the author of this book! However, this book was fine, and so boring! Man! The writing style did not click with me! And most importantly......
WHERE WERE THE QUOTATION MARKS!?!?!?!? Like when people would speak, there wasn't any quotation marks around when someone was speaking and it was just a very awkward and unpleasant reading experience because of it! I mean who ever edited this book (If there were any editors to begin with which I'm going to assume their were) just why???? Why?????? Where on earth were the freaking quotation marks!!!! Is it suppose to make the book look more fancier or whatever???? Whatever the reason was, there's literally no excuse to not include them!
Also, the writing style was just so flowery. I like detail in a book when it's relevant. But oh my goodness I don't care about the details about something that's just not important. Also when it's brought up again and again and I'm just like, "I get it. You already described this not at all important thing before....why on earth are you talking about it again????" If so many of these unnecessary details were just taken out of the book, the book itself would be so much shorter. I just wish that the book would get to the freaking point of whatever story was trying to be told! (I feel like I've also said this in another book that I've read. Because there is definitely this similarity....but anyways)
Without spoiling anything.....omg why on earth was this story told? The entire time that I was reading this story I was always thinking to myself, "Why does this story exist?" Like I really didn't enjoy the story at all! Winnie the protagonist, I guess, seemed to have no ambitions at all! Like I get that her entire life was unfortunate. However! It just seemed like that she literally had no control in her life and that things were just happening to her for her entire life. And she never seemed to fight back either! I suppose the one thing that I could take away from this book would be that....okay yes being nice is important. But! But if you just allow things to happen to you, you don't stand up for yourself, are a pushover, are not assertive in any way, etc. Then people are going to use you! As people did to Winnie her entire life. And as a result, she lived the sad life that she lived. I think that even though this isn't what the book was trying to say at all, in my opinion, this book serves as a warning that if we aren't assertive in our life with what we want, whether that be to ourselves or to others, we are going to suffer the consequences. [To be clear I understand that she had a mental illness, and I was able to sympathize with her; however, just the way that the story was told I guess was just not connecting with me. Like I don't know really how to explain my feelings on this properly. But again, I just feel like if the story itself was fleshed out more properly, it would have had a bigger effect because also that ending was a mixture of unsatisfaction and what the actual f*ck.]
In the end, I gave this book 2 stars and not 1 star because I don't hate it. Like I really didn't like this book, but it wasn't problematic at least. In any case, I really don't recommend this book to anyone. Unless you're someone who isn't assertive so you could learn about the potential dangers of not being assertive in your life by reading this book. Otherwise again, omg this book was so boring. But on the bright side, I'm learning what I'm liking and not liking in books as I get back into reading.
November 22, 2022
My initial feeling about this book as I read the first forty or so pages was frustration. I did not understand who the narrator was, or why was she unreliable. Soon enough I was transfixed by the surreal unfolding of the story. I know that is far into a book that is not very long but worth the patience.
Patricia/Lillian/Winnie is a befuddled woman who has lived with a great deal of trauma. She seems to have a limited mental capacity, unable to defend herself or find her voice against those who would manipulate her. As an elderly woman, she does not want to remember the past but it comes creeping back in spurts of hazy memories.
This is one of those either love or hate books. It is not a book with an aha moment in the plot or ending. It is a telling of a sad life that is slowly revealed. I personally could not put it down.
Patricia/Lillian/Winnie is a befuddled woman who has lived with a great deal of trauma. She seems to have a limited mental capacity, unable to defend herself or find her voice against those who would manipulate her. As an elderly woman, she does not want to remember the past but it comes creeping back in spurts of hazy memories.
This is one of those either love or hate books. It is not a book with an aha moment in the plot or ending. It is a telling of a sad life that is slowly revealed. I personally could not put it down.
May 14, 2021
Winnie is 72 and believes the case with all her possessions has been stolen. This starts her journey and our glimpse into her past. She was sent to live with her grandfather when her mom went crazy, then to an aunt, then to a couple who exploited her ability to talk to the dead, then to a cousin of some sort who took her in and raped her, then committing her to an institution where she stays for 24 years. She gets out and steals a baby (to replace the one she had and had to give up). Now she is alone, poor, and crazy and discovers that the girl who took her case is the baby she once stole!!
This was awful from the start to the end. No plot thread, no developed characters, no explanation of events. The author doesn't even manage to make Winnie, herself, sympathetic.
This was awful from the start to the end. No plot thread, no developed characters, no explanation of events. The author doesn't even manage to make Winnie, herself, sympathetic.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 13, 2024
An elderly woman, living in an empty house, is robbed in the middle of the night. As the novel progresses, we go back in time, and told the life story of the woman, starting when she was a young girl and how her life had been affected by events and the people she met.
The novel is initially slow and confusing, and does not become interesting until the girl is sent to her aunt's farm, during the Second World War. Her life story is severely edited to a few chapters, regarding the last 55 years of her life which is unfortunate, as these missing years would have been of greater interest to the readers.
The novel is initially slow and confusing, and does not become interesting until the girl is sent to her aunt's farm, during the Second World War. Her life story is severely edited to a few chapters, regarding the last 55 years of her life which is unfortunate, as these missing years would have been of greater interest to the readers.
April 6, 2021
Well this book took me a while to read. I did connect with Winnie at the beginning and I felt sorrow for the life she led. I did not understand how easily she was transformed from one person to the next by no fault of her own. I was sorry that Winnie was a nobody. She was someone who disappeared into the backdrop of life. The book was somewhat confusing because I had to keep up with who had Winnie, what was Winnie's name and the circumstance that Winnie was involved in. I do agree that the book was beautifully written. It was an OK book.
December 30, 2024
Lillian or Pats or Winnie (she has several names/personas) narrates her own story switching from present to past, guiding us through the twists of her life.
This is an endearing yet heartbreaking story, probably not uncommon for the era in which it is set; a time where social standards and morals were being challenged.
The writing style is uncomplicated, mirroring the simple, often confused mind of the main character. Enjoyable and easy read.
While fictional it is based on a real life ‘homeless’ character whom the author knew.
This is an endearing yet heartbreaking story, probably not uncommon for the era in which it is set; a time where social standards and morals were being challenged.
The writing style is uncomplicated, mirroring the simple, often confused mind of the main character. Enjoyable and easy read.
While fictional it is based on a real life ‘homeless’ character whom the author knew.
January 8, 2018
I think this book is beautifully written but I found the author's style to be frustrating at times - sometimes I felt that I'd missed an important point in wading through the imagery. I often had to go back over areas. The story itself is sad but interesting - Lillian's life is a series of usually unfortunate incidents. Her mental health affects and is in turn affected by her story. Perhaps not ideal beachside holiday reading!
February 3, 2020
A quick and interesting read. Story is told in mostly the first person, by an unreliable narrator who is now an elderly homeless woman, and "not quite right in the head". She's someone you might walk past quickly as she's yelling indecipherable things. Her limited understanding of what is happening makes her story that much more poignant, as is her ability to survive against what seems like impossible odds.
October 15, 2018
Elliptical narrative about a deeply troubled woman sort-of kind-of looking back through her fragmentary memories. Well enough written on a sentence-by-sentence level, but the events are horrible in most respects, and the fact that it's apparently based on the life of a real person makes it feel rather exploitative.
October 15, 2025
Dit boek heeft me verrast. De eerste 10 pagina's vond ik maar niets, maar ik had dit van mijn opa gekregen dus ik vertrouwde er wel op dat er iets in ging zitten.
Ik twijfel tussen 3 of 4 sterren, het is een fantastisch boek vind ik, zeker waard om het te lezen en ik heb het ook graag gelezen. Dat is het belangrijkste.
Ik twijfel tussen 3 of 4 sterren, het is een fantastisch boek vind ik, zeker waard om het te lezen en ik heb het ook graag gelezen. Dat is het belangrijkste.
December 16, 2017
This is one I'm going to need to read again. At first, I thought I was going to enjoy it. Then it utterly lost me and I had no idea what was going on. Then, I thought I'd got a handle on it. Then, it finished.
Not the most glowing review.
Not the most glowing review.
January 8, 2019
A haunting tale of a journey of homelessness, being taken advantage of, ridiculed and mocked,. Where even your own name can not matter to you. A very sad tale that could easily be someone’s reality.
December 26, 2019
This book was a bitter-sweet treasure to fall upon. I had no idea what to expect, and it turned out to be a book that is strangely and beautifully written, and very realistically and sadly portrays how deeply a life can be affected when roots are overturned.
December 24, 2024
An old homeless woman is found having been robbed. The novel moves between chapters that detail her childhood and her current state. I found that while the chapters were clearly written, the plot made little sense, and it was hard to make sense of the book.
May 7, 2019
This book is so beautifully written!
October 14, 2020
I liked this book but it was a little confusing at times to me. I couldn't always figure out where the main character was.
December 27, 2023
This one was hard to follow. It jumped around a lot and I struggled to understand what was happening. I’m still not sure I understand what really happened.
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