Like his other novels, Coelho’s latest is an incredibly beautiful read about a woman born in Transylvania to a Gypsy mother and who’s later adopted by a wealthy Lebanese couple.
As a child, Sherine Khalil renames herself Athena. She shows a strong religious vocation and reports seeing angels and saints, which impresses and worries her parents.
As the book begins, Athena is dead. How she ended up that way creates the intrigue that attempts to sustain the book.
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No way! Haven’t finished the book yet, but I believe it isn’t the HOW that creates the intrigue… It’s more the life of her that is compelling me forward. What’s in it? Who were the people there with her? What did she value? What made sense to her and what didn’t? How is her history constructed? And WHY did she die? Who did she love? WHY?
This is just a very badly written ‘review’…actually…
the word ‘attempts’ (to sustain) is inept/redundant in anything Paulo does with writing…everything is success..
and the facts, picked out like a child eating a currant bun!
No feeling for the satisfaction of feeding hunger with niceties…etc.
Obviously written by someone paid to read and write…they have perhaps lost their passion.
Your readers write more honestly and easily about your work, Paulo, with real life emotions returned.
In the flavour of the rest of this ‘critique’ (an advertisement would be more blatantly loaded..)
he/she just didn’t have the guts to say….the book is about the life of Athena….for fear of sounding too ‘obvious’ and..well…we can all criticize, constructively or not….still an advert though, eh?
There was one difference in this book for me…but I have mentioned it before and don’t want to spoil your read, Serene. x
Love.
Paulo, what I don’t understand is why people always kid the people they love the most. Is it better to live in beautiful delusions, or suffer through reality knowing the happenings of your loved ones? Liliana’s chapter, the blood mother of Athena, it makes me so sad. So sad. Why did you write it? You say you try to uncover your soul to yourself. Well, what did you uncover?
What you helped me uncover, through your words, is a lot of hurt. It is hurt that which I will go through, but hurt nonetheless. Questions are burning me now.