Black Dogs by Ian McEwanMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
I read this book long ago and was not impressed.
I gave the book another chance - no success.
Construction of the book is original - the narrator is a young person who is more interested with lives of other people than with his own.
His target is a married couple which for some time was united by their devotion to Communism. Then, as the glamour of communism evaporated, there came a deep divide between them.
The man stayed rational - he changed his political view but it did not affect his professional position.
The woman - became mystic... whatever it means.
There is no discussion of man's disenchantment with communism, it the case of the woman the case is even simpler - she experienced a vision.
So where is the story?
Instead of the story there are reports of 2 facts:
- the fall of Berlin Wall
- visit to Majdanek - German concentration camp.
I got a nasty suspicion that the author wrote this book to publicise his experience from these 2 events.
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