132,928
edits
Changes
From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to searchBook Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)
Revision as of 08:52, 18 September 2014
, 08:52, 18 September 2014no edit summary
'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].'''<!-- Remove -->
{{newreview
|title=Us
|author=David Nicholls
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Douglas Petersen is a mild-mannered, middle-aged biochemist. He and Connie have been married for about two decades. Their son, Albie, is your average sullen teenager with a messy room and bohemian affectations. He and Douglas argue about everything, but especially about Albie's chosen career path: he hopes to be a photographer, taking after his artist mother, but Douglas wants him to study something more practical and rigorous at uni. Still, Douglas thinks things are going pretty well for his family – until one night Connie sits up in bed and tells him she thinks she wants to leave him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034089699X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=Eren
|summary=On the day that Slava's Russian Jewish grandmother is buried in their new homeland of the US, a letter arrives from the German Conference on Material Claims Against Germany offering her financial restitution for her war years spent in a concentration camp. All she would have needed to do would be to write a letter about her whereabouts and experiences during World War II. It's too late for her but Slava's granddad wants Slava to complete the form in his grandfather's name instead. The fact that Slava's granddad was never in a German concentration camp is immaterial; surely Slava could write something? He's a journalist after all and his granddad did suffer during the war; every Jew in Minsk suffered. This put's Slava's filial devotion to the test but little does he know it's only the beginning.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957548834</amazonuk>
}}
