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Beware of Pity
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Stefan Zweig
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, October 14, 2012
It is 1913 and a poor lowly second lieutenant in the Austro Hungarian army is invited to a dance at the schloss near his garrison. He is aware of the social cachet it will give him with his fellow soldiers. Noticing the daughter of the owner seated at a table he asks her for a dance and discovers to his acute embarrassment that she is disabled. To make amends he spends much of the evening in conversation with her and to his surprise he is invited back for a second visit. From this point Lieutenant Hofmiller is sucked into the family's attempts to mollify the controlling daughter Edith. He has no sense of attraction to the young woman but pity and the rigid sense of duty leave him powerless to escape. This is a compelling and beautifully crafted novel of emotional blackmail in an era of rigid social codes. The corrosive effects of compassion makes this a novel that never leaves its reader.
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Spider
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McGrath, Patrick
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, May 12, 2012
An intense novel about schizophrenia as seen through the eyes of the eponymous protagonist. Everything is his reality and the novel charts the beginnings of his condition around the time of puberty until his return to the poor area of London where he grew up. Patrick McGrath's spare, unsentimental writing draws the reader into Spider's world. It is also an accurate knife-sharp portrayal of a slice of mid 20th century British working class urban life, especially the lives revolving round the pub and the drunken homecomings, as unnerving to a child as a clown in full make up who comes too close. If you read the book then get the DVD starring Ralph Fiennes in a pitch perfect portrayal.
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The Year of the Hare
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Arto Paasilinna
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, February 04, 2012
This has become a cult book in France as well as in the author's native Finland. The protaganist Vatanen is tired of his job in journalism. After an accident when a hare is injured he leaves the car in which he has been travelling to search for the animal. He finds it and the incident is life changing. The book explores his decision to give up his job, leave his wife and travel in the wilds of Finland with the hare. A picaresque funny adventure and a good translation. I read it in one sitting.
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Turquoise
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Aamer Hussein
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, January 01, 2012
Exquisite short stories about Pakistan and Pakistani exiles. Hussein Aamer writes sentences you want to read slowly to savour their beauty. Each story has its own identity but the whole is an emotional poetic feast.
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