I couldn't figure that out either so I tried looking it up. Apparently it is not specified anywhere. Kind of makes it hard for me to picture things even with the discriptions
I thought it was Mexico just because that is where I drive across the border, and was the only picture I had in my head, but I cannot really picture a place either.
I'm finding that the book moves along slowly but is interesting enough. Sometimes it's hard to follow the story within a story within a story.
I like Zora and hope she is in the book more. She's feisty.
I also enjoy Barba Ivan and Nada - their "back and forth"/individual conversations on p. 28 and 29 made me laugh.
It was hard to read about when Natalia and Zora were in school - their classroom on the top of the school and the heat! UGH! Then their teacher, M. Dobravka, smuggling the lungs in for them to examine oh the stink!! But what a great teacher...
I think Gavran was the devils nephew - he was so matter a fact about not being able to die; amusing.
I felt bad for the blacksmith having to go after the tiger, not knowing anything about hunting or shooting... and then he got tore up! Poor guy.
I agree the book is a bit slow and hard to follow all the separate stories sometimes. Although the stories are interesting in themselves. Would almost make good short stories.
I agree that the stories are a bit confusing. What I don't get is how the current story is set in a real life and a little depressing from the war and tuberculosis then the grandfather's stories seem to be make believe. It is confusing to me because I am jumping back in forth from a real story to a make believe story.
K. So I already have a stupid question. I am still on chapter 1 but I can't figure out what country this is taking place in.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't figure that out either so I tried looking it up. Apparently it is not specified anywhere. Kind of makes it hard for me to picture things even with the discriptions
ReplyDeleteI thought it was Mexico just because that is where I drive across the border, and was the only picture I had in my head, but I cannot really picture a place either.
ReplyDeleteI read in one of the book reviews that it is set in an unnamed Eastern European country.
ReplyDeleteSo what do you make of Gavran Gaile (The man who couldn't die)? Is his uncle supposed to be the devil?
ReplyDeleteMollie, I think you are right--his uncle is the devil or god maybe!
ReplyDeleteI'm finding that the book moves along slowly but is interesting enough. Sometimes it's hard to follow the story within a story within a story.
ReplyDeleteI like Zora and hope she is in the book more. She's feisty.
I also enjoy Barba Ivan and Nada - their "back and forth"/individual conversations on p. 28 and 29 made me laugh.
It was hard to read about when Natalia and Zora were in school - their classroom on the top of the school and the heat! UGH! Then their teacher, M. Dobravka, smuggling the lungs in for them to examine oh the stink!! But what a great teacher...
I think Gavran was the devils nephew - he was so matter a fact about not being able to die; amusing.
I felt bad for the blacksmith having to go after the tiger, not knowing anything about hunting or shooting... and then he got tore up! Poor guy.
not a whole lot to say about 1-4. This book is going very slow for me and hard to get interested in it. I hope the next 4 give me more to say :)
ReplyDeleteI agree the book is a bit slow and hard to follow all the separate stories sometimes. Although the stories are interesting in themselves. Would almost make good short stories.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the stories are a bit confusing. What I don't get is how the current story is set in a real life and a little depressing from the war and tuberculosis then the grandfather's stories seem to be make believe. It is confusing to me because I am jumping back in forth from a real story to a make believe story.
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