Wiggins, the author of John Dollar and one of the most imaginative writers of fiction today, tells the story of a passionate love affair between a foreign correspondent for an American newspaper and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Someone sent this book up to my house for me to read and to be honest I put off readng it. The back of the book doesn't give the story justice so I threw it to the side and read other books instead. I recently rediscovered this book in a quest to find something new to read. I read the first page and then I couldn't put the book down. I was caught up in the story and the conversational way in which the book was written really made me engage with the main character. I have never heard of this author before in my life but I am so impressed by this book I am going to search the library for other works of hers. This book is amazing - a love story caught up inside a gruesome guessing game.
Outstanding
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I loved this book. It's totally different from John Dollar (which I also loved); reminded me somewhat of a Nick Hornby read. Funny, sad, and passionate. Wiggins' prose is exquisite.
A writer of the highest caliber takes on love & politics
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
This is the best book I have read this year. Stylistically brilliant, scintillant, it searches into the nature of love and the obsessions of of eros -- not in daily life, but in life on the edge, life where politics, catastrophe, and the twentieth century converge. Wiggins' protagonist is a journalist -- male -- who covers international events of major magnitude; set alternately in Africa, at the (falling)Berlin wall, and in 'liberated' Eastern Europe, the book is a serious inquiry intot he relations between eros and ethos. The characters are riveting, the settings full of the excitement and confusion of the late twentieth centurty -- and the prose, the prose is a continual joy. Only a slight falling off at the end -- the book gets into so much that it is tough for Wiggins to extract herself and the reader from the fullness -- mars what is otherwise a wondrous book for our times.
A great book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
See my review under the paperback edition. Though for the price differential, the harcover edition is a bargain
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