Punishments
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Rated 4 starsNot everything is spelled out
In "Punishments" at one point the narrator tells of "...an incident which, to this day, still both puzzles me with its sense of things unacknowledged and even unknown, and infuriates me with its sense of opportunity lost." I would suggest reading this short novel with that quote in mind. Much of the beauty in this book is the main character's struggle to understand his situation - and his lack of power over how he was manipulated...
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Rated 4 starsYoung English student seduced by enigmatic Arian
In 1981 Michael Gregg, the narrator recalls two weeks in 1948 when as an undergraduate he was one of a group of English students visiting Hildingen, Germany, to take part in an Anglo-German summer school, with the aim of paving the way for improved relations between the two recently warring nations. The German students taking part accommodate the English students in their homes or lodgings. Michael, along with fellow student...
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