Irene's review
The World to Come: A Novel by Dara Horn
Irene's review
rating:
bookshelves: favorites, russian-jewish--or-both
recommended for: jeanie
status: Read in August, 2008
rating:
bookshelves: favorites, russian-jewish--or-both
recommended for: jeanie
status: Read in August, 2008
Ahhhhh.
Have you ever met a person who you thought was odd, weird, just a bit off, and then, when you get to know this person--really get to know someone, you realize you found a true friend--someone that you feel like you've known for eternity? That was this book for me. I wasn't into it for the first third of the book, and then something special happened. I understood it. I understood every single last frustration of being born in the Soviet Union, escaping those Jewish-hating fascists and reinventing a family in America. I felt every word flow through my blood stream. I understood and then I felt. And when the characters (who were all magical in different ways) were hurting, so was I. And when they saw glimmers of joy, so did I.
Maybe I feel this way now because my gramps, suffering from many things in a solitary house of pain (nursing home), was born during the pogroms and is now remembering things from 50, 60, 70 years ago that are affecting me in this way....but, Ms...more
Have you ever met a person who you thought was odd, weird, just a bit off, and then, when you get to know this person--really get to know someone, you realize you found a true friend--someone that you feel like you've known for eternity? That was this book for me. I wasn't into it for the first third of the book, and then something special happened. I understood it. I understood every single last frustration of being born in the Soviet Union, escaping those Jewish-hating fascists and reinventing a family in America. I felt every word flow through my blood stream. I understood and then I felt. And when the characters (who were all magical in different ways) were hurting, so was I. And when they saw glimmers of joy, so did I.
Maybe I feel this way now because my gramps, suffering from many things in a solitary house of pain (nursing home), was born during the pogroms and is now remembering things from 50, 60, 70 years ago that are affecting me in this way....but, Ms...more
