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The first two scenes - extraordinary.
Daniel Kehlmann has perfectly - or so close to perfect that I cannot fault him - descriptively caught ‘age’ and ‘foreignness’ with an accuracy acuity I’ve so far not encountered in any other writer.
It matters not if I’m intrigued by the plot - the writing has me captivated.
— Dec 23, 2025 01:37PM
Daniel Kehlmann has perfectly - or so close to perfect that I cannot fault him - descriptively caught ‘age’ and ‘foreignness’ with an accuracy acuity I’ve so far not encountered in any other writer.
It matters not if I’m intrigued by the plot - the writing has me captivated.
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Interesting. The clear lines of how a war impacts on each psyche differently, and yet these psyches need to live together. The son who spouts Hitler Youth indoctrination, the mother who becomes a not-so-secret alcoholic, ably unassisted by a life that was unfulfilling anyway. The father, the famous G.W. Pabst, who uses his passion for film making to shelter him.
— 12 hours, 20 min ago
Cat Milton
is on page 114 of 352
Yikes. That got dark and frightening fast - and bugger all to do with the war. Hmmm. I don’t do ‘dark and frightening’ …
— Dec 27, 2025 12:23AM
Cat Milton
is on page 88 of 352
Scenes!
He's writing scenes, as though directing a film, not writing a book and they're glorious. Everything shifts to suit the narrator of the scene although one might not immediately know who the narrator (main character/lead) of the scene is.
— Dec 25, 2025 01:18AM
