Archive for March 23, 2011
SEVEN YEARS by Peter Stamm
The title and the description on the back cover suggest a familiar story of adultery as in the movie The Seven Year Itch: husband, getting bored after seven years of marriage, looks for a younger and prettier woman elsewhere. And indeed there is something of this. But Swiss author Peter Stamm goes out of his way to minimize any normal comparisons between the women. Alexander, the first-person narrator, is married to Sonia, a fellow architect, but more brilliant, more determined than he is, from a wealthier family, beautiful, and self-assured. The other woman, Ivona, is actually an earlier acquaintance, an undocumented Polish worker, dowdy, inarticulate, religious, not at all attractive, yet familiar…
March 23, 2011
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Tags: Contemporary, Married Life В· Posted in: Character Driven, Contemporary, Life's Moments, Translated, World Literature
THREE STAGES OF AMAZEMENT by Carol Edgarian
THREE STAGES OF AMAZEMENT by Carol Edgarian is the story of a marriage. The novel takes place in the not far distant past, when Obama has recently been elected president and the markets have plummeted. Lena and Charlie have started their lives anew. Charlie was the head of surgery at Mass General Hospital. He has left this behind to move to San Francisco to start up a new company that specializes in medical robotics although this is not the best time to look for venture capitalists to fund his research.
March 23, 2011
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Tags: 21st-Century, Contemporary, Married Life В· Posted in: California, Character Driven, Contemporary, Life Choices
