The First Kernel of the Truth behind the whole story lies in the lives of the protagonists.
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There is Noura, of course. She is the daughter of the respected, well-read and fairly modern imam Sheikh Rami Arabi who allowed her to go to school and to become a dressmaker. When Noura was about eighteen, she entered into an arranged marriage with Hamid Farsi. Salman is the son of a poor Christian family living in the Grace and Favour Yard in the Christian quarter of Damascus.
Already as a child he began to support his sick mother and to protect her from her violet husband.
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Noura and Salman fell in love virtually at first sight and began a secret as well as dangerous affair. The Second Kernel of the Truth leading to the disgrace and subsequent fall of Hamid Farsi lies in his passion for Arabic calligraphy and his attempt to reform the script. The plot is so rich and varying that it would have justified even more pages to develop, especially in the second half of the novel which feels a bit cursory.
Language and style are modern and accessible. Of course, I read the original German version of the book, but it is said that its English translation by Anthea Bell is excellent. The setting gives the novel the touch of a fairy-tale from the Arabian Nights. Intelligent women are forced into the roles of subdued wives who are excluded from society and life altogether. Men are discontent with what they believe to be expected of them or they are confused by the fact that neither they nor their wives are happy.
Traditions are held in high esteem and even small changes are seen as threats to cultural identity and true faith.
In this very realistic world of the past which could just as well be the present reformers have a difficult, even dangerous life. I passed a good time reading The Calligrapher's Secret. Someone who looks for a sentimental love story or for an exciting mystery may be disappointed although the novel includes some elements of both. For me it has been a very enjoyable read which helped me to understand the Arabic mind a little better.
It's worth the time. Friday, 13 September Book Review: Russia is a huge country with a rich history. Lamentably, it has also been a history of recurring violence. Already before the Russian revolution of Communist and other activists used terrorism as a means to force political change and the tsarist government answered all those attempts with rigorous actions tightening its grip on the population.
Outside Russia little is known today of those forerunners of the revolution and the victims on either side. When she was fourteen, she and her wealthy family fled from the terrors of the October Revolution raging in the tsarist capital St.
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Petersburg and settled down in France two years later. Several of her works have been published posthumously, among them the biography A Life of Chekhov La vie de Tchekhov: The Courilof Affair is a fictitious novel based on real events of Russian history.
Petersburg in which he was involved in He is the son of Russian revolutionaries deported to Siberia, but grew up in exile in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was raised to be a revolutionary and an assassin. He travels to Kiev to meet Fanny who is his liaison with the local revolutionaries and full of hatred against the ruling classes. At Easter they move on to St. Petersburg together where he is supposed to spy out Courilof and to wait for further instructions. He lives under the name of Marcel Legrand, a doctor of medicine from Geneva, and goes into service with Courilof for the summer.
The more he knows about the real Courilof the more he perceives him as a human being, moreover as just another poor fool like everybody else and one whom he likes in a way. On the contrary, he — thus the author as his mastermind in the background — tells the whole story in the matter-of-fact language of someone who has long done with the past.
The depicted characters are human beings with strengths and weaknesses like people in the real world around us. They have hopes and fears, they have desires and aversions, they have a conscience and they have a past which moulded them. Each one of them acts according to his or her nature and knowledge. The atmosphere of tsarist St. Petersburg just after feels very authentic and the plot which is modelled after history seems very realistic.
So many books, so little time! She was a great author. Friday, 6 September Book Review: Croatia is the newest member state of the European Union since July and a young country altogether. Independence dates back only to and wasn't gained easily. Unlike in the case of Slovenia, the government of Yugoslavia wasn't willing to let the country leave the federation without fighting.
Combats between Croatian and Yugoslav units reinforced by local Serbs went on until and escalated in the genocidal war in Bosnia and Herzegovina including adjacent areas. Peace wasn't restored until A Daughter's Memoir investigated the tragic events leading to her father's hanging for treason in Following this first success, Aminatta Forna turned to fiction writing and brought out the award-winning novels Ancester Stones and The Memory of Love Her latest published work is The Hired Man which has been received with much acclaim as well.
She lives in London with her husband and works as a Professor of Creative Writing.
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It's a quiet place on the outskirts of the town somewhere in the mountains of Croatia and small enough for people to all know each other. So it's no wonder that in the summer of the arrival of the Englishwoman Laura and her teenage children Matthew and Grace is noticed and talked about at once. His cottage is next door, but he had no idea that the deserted and decayed house had been sold. In a simple language Aminatta Forna evokes the peaceful atmosphere of a typical little town tucked away in the Croatian mountains which is ever more often replaced by the powerful memories of The Hired Man who saw and had his share in the horrors of war.
With great skill Aminatta Forna manages to constantly heighten suspense until the story of the deserted blue house and the fate of all those people who disappeared from Gost over night and without trace is finally revealed. It required some research to write this book and as far as I can judge it, the writer did a very good job there. Being Austrian the Balkan Wars of the s are still quite fresh in my memory. At the time all media covered the fights and atrocities every day and many refugees came to my country, above all Bosnians who then settled down here for good.
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