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Review by Lisa (140908) Rating (9/10) Review
by Lisa In the early 1990's Leo is involved in a bus crash in South America where his girlfriend Eleni dies. Leo tells his story after Eleni's death, searching for her and the epic love they had through the days and years that follow her death, finding her in the mating rituals of ants and in the logic of quantum physics. While there are no twists and turns, no rollercoasters of emotion, you are strangely drawn into the day to day grief that Leo experiences. Running parallel to Leo's story Mauritz is telling his story to his young son fishel in Eastern Europe on the cusp of the Second World War. Mauritz tells of how he left the love of his life, having kissed her only once, to fight a civil war in his own country. His story tells of how moving from civil war he began to fight against some of his closest neighbours, including the Russians, eventually ending up a POW at the very most east end of Russia. As the Bolshevik revolution picks up momentum in the 1918 Mauritz escapes his prison and walks across the full length of Russia to find his one and only love, meeting many inspiring and terrifying people along the way. Both
stories can't fail to move you to reassess what is really important
in life, whether we should enjoy the journey rather than where
we are trying to get to for fear of missing out on life along
the way. The surprising climax will have you in tears unless you
have a heart of stone, when Leo and Mauritz's stories become intertwined
across the boundaries of time. One of those books that stays with
you and makes you think! |
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