Having done things back to front and read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close first you come to the debut from Foer with a sense of expectat...

Have no fear the ending will not be revealed. What can safely be said is that the last third of the book is much more enjoyable than what pr...

As the book settles down and gets past the half way mark you are juggling three time periods. The life of the grandfather who shortly after ...

The dialogue between the character of the limited interpreter and the author keeps this going because what is happening in the present is mu...

Having started this book I am determined to finish it even if for some reason it doesn’t grab me. On the face of it the story sounds reasona...

One of the challenges as a reader is not just to get with the rewinding of time but also to try and work out the narrative voice. It seems t...

If there is one thing that immediately strikes you about the writing of Jonathan Safran Foer it is the language. He is challenging the reade...

This book was recommended as a companion piece to Don De Lillo's Falling Man but it came with a warning that it was very stylised. That...

The conclusion of the book is very moving and in a way having penned this the author should have stepped back and realised that real emotion...

As the dual stories of the disaster in New York with the twin towers and the bombing of Dresden in the Second World War open up there is a c...

With echoes of the sort of literary devices used by the likes of Georges Perec to help shape the story the main character Oskar decides to t...

before anyone starts thinking that I am on some sort of themed reading exercise at the moment with Falling man and now this please let me ex...