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A powerful, powerful piece of work. A wounded book making its own book. It brings so much to life—Joseph Roth, Chechnya, Germany, the art of writing, the whole notion of banning books, the lips of the past speaking to the present.” —Colum McCann,best-selling author of Apeirogon While watching documentaries showing the pyres onto which books were burnt during the Nazi regime, I sometimes wondered if there had been people courageous enough to save any book indexed by the Nazis. Mr Hamilton offers us a tale of a novel by Joseph Roth which escaped the fire and was given to a young American woman by her father with a request to take the utmost care of it. Easily add drawings with pen, pencil, crayon and fill tools, then animate them and watch them come to life If books could speak, what would they tell of the people in whose hands they have been? This is what happens in Hugo Hamilton’ extraordinary novel.

When the story begins, it is in the VOICE of a 1st edition copy, once in pristine condition, but now buried in its current owner’s handbag, along with a passport, a cell phone, a half eaten pastry and other assorted items. The book had been given to Lena Knecht, by her father, from his death bed-with explicit instructions to protect the book as if it were her little brother. She has no idea of it’s history. Lena, an artist herself, has decided to return to Germany from the U.S., in hopes of inspiring her Art, and finding what is buried. I was not familiar with the book “Rebellion” or Austrian journalist and author Joseph Roth, so I didn’t realize that this was inspired by an actual book or people. Only true book lovers would understand the lengths that people went to-to protect or destroy things that meant something to them-whether it was BOOKS, , or what was buried at the end of a map. Released as part of iWork '06. Includes new templates, table calculations, photo masking with shapes, and freestyle bezier curves.With real-time collaboration, your whole team can work together on a document at the same time on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and even on a PC Supports exporting and sending a document in a different format from the Share menu. Report, note-taking, letter and résumé templates include placeholder text with instructions. [32] Adds support for Apple Pencil hover on compatible iPads. [33] As a lesbian, I am offended by that. However, it is not my position nor inclination to say what someone else should think or read, and I happily got a copy of the book for him. Requires iPadOS16. StageManager is available on iPadAir (5th generation), iPadPro 12.9-inch (3rd generation and later), and iPadPro 11-inch (1st generation and later). External display support is available on iPadAir (5th generation), iPadPro 12.9-inch (5th generation and later), iPadPro 11-inch (3rd generation and later). It is extremely well written and when I first began reading, I thought this would be a five star novel. I was in love with the way Hugo Hamilton writes.

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Irish writer Hamilton performs a provocative feat . . . By astutely meshing a suspenseful quest, a sharply relevant homage to Roth, and intricate stories of persecution, exile, war, censorship, love, and anguish, Hamilton has created a tale of deep resonance.” —Donna Seaman , Booklist [starred review] English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese This is the main plot, which is quite simple and a mere pretext for this polyphonic novel to skilfully bring together a number of different strands: Andreas Pum’s story, the tense story of the book itself and the DDR family that kept it, Lena’s father fate as a German immigrant in racist America, Armin’s tragic past, his sister’s relationship with a racist stalker. A particular place is occupied by Roth’s complex, attentively researched character, shown as both persecuted man, a confused individual and a womaniser who committed his sensual wife to an asylum. Closely intertwined with the theme of racist and fascist strains, the novel also offers a very nuanced exploration of toxic masculinity, guilt, and betrayal: it is not a coincidence that Rebellion was physically and symbolically encased inside Effi Briest, a seminal texts defining the 19th-century fallen woman plot (Effi is cast away by her husband for a kiss with a young officer many years earlier and dies in misery). References to this and other literary texts also feature in the novel, adding to the multivocality and multiplying meanings and making this an incredibly learned book. In contrast -- Two weeks ago a patron asked for a book that is not in our consortium. I don't recall the title but it was about homosexuality being a sin, against the Bible, an abomination, blah blah blah.

The book as a character has much in common with its author Joseph Roth. It is a born noticer, someone who loves the rich oddness of the world and registers both the visible and the possible with verve and energy.

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It's hard to believe things that make no effort to be true." And in sounding excessively false at times, this novel ends up a disappointment, frustrating in how easy it is to picture a superior version.