Natalie Bakopoulos
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Scorpionfish door Natalie Bakopoulos
A very interesting and shrewd portrayal of the modern day Athens with all it's problems of the refugee crisis, economical crisis, neo-nazis, garbage strikes, traffic jams etc. It was a slow read for me without much action, many things happening in the background, often complicated, deeper thoughts that require rereading them. The author's contemplation on double or tripple identities, being an immigrant, refugee, exile, diaspora, re-emigrant was the thing I enjoyed the most about this book.
This book, set in modern Greece, is about death and loss and loneliness. Somewhat of a downer. The main characters are a maritime officer, who has recently lost his job and is divorcing his wife, and a Greek-American college professor, who has just lost both parents to an auto accident and her boyfriend to another woman. Oh, and a good friend of both of these characters has a terminal illness and, it appears, has died of suicide.
There is a lot of chattering and introspection about these emotional entanglements. And, at the book's end, perhaps the seafarer and the professor will get together. But "living happily ever after" does not seem in the offing.… (meer)
There is a lot of chattering and introspection about these emotional entanglements. And, at the book's end, perhaps the seafarer and the professor will get together. But "living happily ever after" does not seem in the offing.… (meer)
This book was so dull. I could barely get through it. I really feel bad. How can a book about a coup and a student-led revolution, with lots of illicit sex, be so, well... not compelling.
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- 3
- Leden
- 138
- Populariteit
- #148,171
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 5
- ISBNs
- 12
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- 2