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This book comprises the thoughts of Keetenheuve, an opposition parliamentarian in post-war Bonn, over the course of two days. Its stream of consciousness approach makes it difficult to tease out what is action and what is in the Keetenheuve's mind. I am not sure that the reader can discover his first name, not why he has what seems to me a Dutch name. The hothouse of the title is a description of the climate both literal and political of Bonn. "A hothouse climate flourished in the basin between
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Written and set in West Germany in the years after World War II, this novel follows the thoughts and actions of a member of parliament as he deals with all the small and large failures of his life - his stumbling career, his years abroad in flight from the Nazi regime, his relationship with a wife he couldn't save.
Although it isn't entirely a stream of consciousness novel, it certainly has those moments, and I felt carried along by a river which was pleasant enough until it wound up somewhere I ...more
Although it isn't entirely a stream of consciousness novel, it certainly has those moments, and I felt carried along by a river which was pleasant enough until it wound up somewhere I ...more
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