2 books to keep you indoors on cold winter nights

in #books5 years ago

Here are a two upcoming titles that I have read and I'm recommending:

LEAVING BERLIN by Joseph Kanon

This might be Joseph Kanon's best novel yet. With his signature elliptical conversations that often convey more than a character is actually saying, with his attention to geographic and architectural detail - especially given that Berlin has been so extensively redeveloped in the past 60 years.- Kanon's style is completely in sync with his subject. This ranks with THE GOOD GERMAN as one of his very finest works.

The book features a Jewish leftist writer who has been sent packing by congressional interrogators in the United States. He has refused to name names; he believes he might be more effective a writerby returning to his native land despite the horrors of the holocaust. Like Bertolt Brecht, who famously did choose to return, Alex Meier is welcomed to East Berlin in 1948. But almost immediately his expectations begin to turn into nightmares. The party early in the novel at the Kulturbund where Meier, Brecht and others gather accept the accolades of his hosts and toast the proletariat with champagne alongside Russian military officers, sets the tone for an experience that 21st century readers could almost believe actually took place.

There is plenty of double-crossing, romance and gunfire before LEAVING BERLIN is over, yet the book struck me more as atmospheric drama than as a spy mystery. If Rainer Werner Fassbinder were still alive, what a movie he could make of it!


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COLD BETRAYAL by J.A. Jance

It's about time that Jane got props from literary as well as thriller readers for her wealthy, tough-minded but warm-hearted former anchorwoman and all-around busybody Ali Reynolds. Her latest suspense book is a "ripped from the headlines" title about two issues: polygamy and care of the aged. The first part of the plot deals with a polygamous sect in northern Arizona that binds very young girls to a slave-like life of drudgery and reproduction. The second is about an old woman who insists on living alone but turns to high-tech help when it appears that someone (read: relatives) are ripping her off. Jance's plots are less about violence, more about family, problem solving and individual character. They are always page turners.

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These both sound excellent. Now if I could just tear myself away from eSteem long enough to read a book again!

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