![]() Can you still love someone knowing what they've done?ĭespite the allusions to heavy subject matter, this book for me was just bland, I'm afraid. So raises the questions of love, evil and genocide. After Hanna unexpectedly leaves him, Michael cannot seem to pull himself together- and years later when he is a law student and watching a trial, he is horrified to see his former lover on the stand for atrocities she committed during the war. Narrated by at first the fifteen year old schoolboy Michael, we are drawn into his world as he begins an affair with thirty-six year old Hanna and learn the nature of their relationship and his devoted love to her. ![]() Whilst the premise was certainly interesting enough and executed well in places, I just found the characters too flat to really care about and as a consequence never really engaged with this book on an emotional level. Instead I am a bit sad to say that I actually found this a little bit dull. Novels about the legacy of the holocaust and that particular time in history have always interested me, so I was looking forward to a genuinely moving tale. ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.įrom the amount of four and five stars dedicated to this book and all of the accolades bestowed upon it, it is safe to say that I started this novel expecting truly great things. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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