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The Hermitage (2001) 3 Exemplare

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Nationalität
France
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This is a short, intense book about the continuing consequences of a ten years past relationship. The story is delivered in short emotional bursts in the form of the last letter the teller will write to their lost love, but never send. The letter is written over the course of a single night and recounts the strange twists and turns of the relationship and explains the authors life after the relationship, alternately chasing and fleeing the memory of the lover. Memories are questioned and reinterpreted but the letter writer still seems blind to the more obvious defects in the relationship regardless of the writers' mercurial feelings towards the lover and the man that came between them.

Aside from the intensity of the past the story is also intriguing in the the ambiguity of the relationship. The characters are never named and I'm not even sure if the gender of the writer was ever revealed, though for some reason I assumed it was a woman. What is certain is the writer is completely attached to the "You" addressed in the letter, though they rarely talked since their first night together and it's doubtful that they've been lovers since that night either. What they did have is proximity and habit and it seems like with or without love or romance they somehow needed each other.

This strange codependent dance is thrown into chaos with the arrival of "Him" and "You" is instantly obsessed with the new man.

I really enjoyed this book. The pain of heartache is fresh and stinging in the pages, but even so the cherished illusions are laid bare. They force you to question if the relationship ever was what what the writer thought it was.
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fundevogel | Sep 26, 2010 |

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