Laura ’s Reviews > Berta Isla > Status Update

I'm a little surprised at the detail, and slow place. Perhaps I'm so used to the spy genre - Le Carre and Mick Herron, even Graham Greene - that we know all the inns and outs - and Marias seems to be covering a lot of "old" ground? This is the feminist version - the wife at home version - Herstory as opposed to His-story? The fun version has been left behind - in the pub - with the boys Tom, T and B.

The interview between Tupra and Tomas + B - funny initially but feeling laboured as it progressed. Many parallels with Saramago's The Double. Nice explanation of the omniscient narrator - the same reasoning I used in my review of Colwin's Happy All the Time - the omniscient voice is bland/ neutral. Tupra points out - 'we believe and trust him because he has no name'. It's a rather powerful perspective.