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Joyce Van rjvza5af — I no longer remember exactly what led me to buy this book, but I think there was something about the synopsis and the title itself that attracted me. Like so many other books I have, this one was left on my shelves, waiting for me to decide to read it, which happened now because of the Monthly Key Word challenge. The plot of this book is set in Norway and the protagonist is Trond, a lonely sixty-year-old who rents a cabin in the middle of the forest, where he intends to live the rest of his life and enjoy the silence. This experience in the midst of Nature is a kind of return to the origins, because it brings to Trond memories of a time when he periodically went with his father to a locality near the border of Sweden for a season when he had a good time with his friend John (sometimes they were going to “steal horses”), but in which he also helped his father with the cutting of trees and the treatment of logs for later sale. The narrative oscillates between the present (late 20th century) and the past (mid-1940s), and when Trond meets a person from his past, the memories are more vivid than ever and the retreats to the past reveal them to us. events that we are always expecting to become something truly traumatic or revealing, but that, in a way, never end up being. The truth is that, even in the face of an accidental death (which does not even directly affect the main character) and betrayed childhood dreams and expectations, I was never able to feel that these events had traumatized Trond to the point where he became a really interesting character. Then, there is a lot that remains to be explained, many characters that go along without us knowing what happened to them. This was not essential to have a well-told story, but, after some expectation created by the events we witness, it is non-climatic. As for writing, I couldn't decide. There are moments well above average, but I found the writing at the heart of the protagonist's thoughts sometimes too confusing. I think - without being absolutely sure - that the Portuguese translation was made from the English translation, and I wonder to what extent this will have affected the final product and the transmission of the author's voice. In summary, it was a book that did not fascinate me. Despite some good writing moments, I did not find the story particularly inspiring or captivating. I do not think I will return to this author.

Girirajsinh Gohil _irirajsinh — I finally got around to reading this just because it is set in Washington DC, and I always think it's fun to read about places that I know and can relate to. It was a good, though predictable, story, and I was reminded that Brown's writing is at times so overdescriptive that I was flipping ahead pages and pages (I once tried listening to The Da Vinci Code on CD, and had to shut it off because the descriptions would become so boring and tedious I was afraid I was going to fall asleep while driving).