Thursday 21 June 2012

The Moment

Dear Readers, it's been a long break between blogs and I do apologize, but life with all its barnacles has a habit of getting in the way of things. Importantly I've discovered a great writer- Douglas Kennedy - and reading his brilliant novel the Moment. It's great. An intelligent thriller set in Berlin in the early 80"s.Now what do I mean when I say intelligent thriller? It seems to suggest there's an opposite i.e. a stupid thriller.
I guess what I mean, is that this thriller gives the reader an education in what life was like in East Berlin when the Wall was up, and Communism was in and the Stasi were in absolute control. It’s a love story, a thriller, and an education all beautifully wrapped up in 646 pages.