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A review by accioemilia
The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
3.0
I had no hopes for this book. I had to read it for my class about genocide and at this point, I am quite sick of genocide novels.
We had toyed with more fictional and literary novels about genocide, beginning with The Reader by Bernhard Schlink about the Holocaust.
This book has good bones; good messages, decent characters, and an important topic (the Cambodian genocide and the aftermath of the genocide). However, I really did not enjoy its delivery.
Echlin's writing style is odd, the stream-of-conscious-like structure combined with the second person narrator was too much to take in. It left me with an awkward feeling after every page.
It was easy to get through, a light and heavy read at the same time. There are many great layers to this book but I couldn't get past how much the actual writing and Anne Greves annoyed me.
It is possible that any novel set up with this style of free-writing (no quotation marks, lots of jumping around, etc.) reminds me too much of some of my favorite books and authors and this was a let-down from their works.
We had toyed with more fictional and literary novels about genocide, beginning with The Reader by Bernhard Schlink about the Holocaust.
This book has good bones; good messages, decent characters, and an important topic (the Cambodian genocide and the aftermath of the genocide). However, I really did not enjoy its delivery.
Echlin's writing style is odd, the stream-of-conscious-like structure combined with the second person narrator was too much to take in. It left me with an awkward feeling after every page.
It was easy to get through, a light and heavy read at the same time. There are many great layers to this book but I couldn't get past how much the actual writing and Anne Greves annoyed me.
It is possible that any novel set up with this style of free-writing (no quotation marks, lots of jumping around, etc.) reminds me too much of some of my favorite books and authors and this was a let-down from their works.