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Dec 18, 2023
Aniko Nagyne vig
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Beautifully written sad story about dignity versus enjoying life. The point of view from a proper devoted English butler, who puts his own needs after his employment. In a 6 day trip after his initial employer is dead and the new employer almost forces him to travel, he looks back on his life, and decisions made by him and his employer, all the mistakes, while accepting to making them. The possibility of happy life showing through the pages, instead of the actual sacrifice for a politically wron
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Sep 15, 2023
Janet Smith
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This book has been on my TBR list for years. Finally got around to reading it. Beautifully written. Simply brilliant.
When the author was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature the committee said the following about his writing
"in novels of great emotional force, [he] has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". ...more
When the author was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature the committee said the following about his writing
"in novels of great emotional force, [he] has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". ...more
