This was a strange book for me… although I liked the intimacy of the writing style, and the feeling of getting to know the character… I never came to like, nor care about, said character.
It was well written, however.

This book, in which an apple tree was a character, had a lot of potential to be wonderderful and whimsical.
It didn’t really pan out to be anything more than a happily ever after silly love story though. I was completely charmed in the beginning, but it never really lived up to what I wanted it […]

I very much liked the concept of the book but I never got fully attached to the characters… which I think hindered me from loving the book as a whole.
The narration style was very unemotional, which created a barrier between the […]

The classic underachiever, Pablo Jose lives off a stipend from his ridiculously wealthy family. He spends his time sleeping, soliciting prostitutes, smoking hash, drinking heavily and maintaining electronic correspondence with members of an online metaphysical philosophy group all while slumming in an apartment owned by his father.
The back cover compared Tusset’s first novel to […]

I have been fascinated with all things Persian as of late. I like the idea of getting a glimpse, even if fictional, into a place that has only connotation of oppression and terrorism from the media. I liked the aspect of this book showing the Iranian people as beautiful and complicated, just as […]