Dan Vyleta
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Tekijän teokset
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1974
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Germany (birth)
Canada - Syntymäpaikka
- Gelsenkirchen, Germany
- Asuinpaikat
- Germany
England, UK
Canada - Koulutus
- University of Cambridge (King's College)
- Ammatit
- novelist
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Pavel and i Tekijä: Dan Vyleta
This novel straddles the genres of mystery and Cold War thriller. It begins and ends with the interaction between a failed intellectual, occupation authorities, and a colony of street ragamuffins as the ramifications of a murder take old. The middle section is a warder/captive account as a British officer interrogates the intellectual protagonist. I found the descriptions of life in occupied Berlin during the Winter of Death of 1946/7 at least as interesting as the plot, which was okay but somewhat draggy, and the jailcell interrogations were pretty average and added little except bulk.… (lisätietoja)
One plot twist that has always bothered me, is when an author kills off a character and them brings them back to life. So while this novel was suspenseful, and had interesting, well drawn out characters, using that cheap trick a number of times, left me a bit disappointed with this read.
I liked this novel, but I suspect that had I read this one before I read R.F. Kuang's Babel, I might have felt differently about both. The worlds they weave are very similar, in a similar time period with a similar message---the powerful holding onto power by monopolizing resources and leveraging an existing caste system---but conveyed from a slightly different angle. I liked Babel better, but I can't tell if that's because I read it first or if it's just better.
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- Jäseniä
- 1,016
- Suosituimmuussija
- #25,359
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- 3.4
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- ISBN:t
- 87
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