Even the Dead once more follows John Banville's pathologist creation Quirke through a journey into the seedy underground world of murder in 1950s Dublin. Although the Quirke series is essentially in the crime fiction drama, Even the Dead is much more than a page-turning thriller. By this seventh book in the Quirke series Banville has made the pathologist, and the life he lives and people he is close to, the prime focus of the novel with the whodunit taking a lesser focus by far.
Showing posts with label Literary Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literary Fiction. Show all posts
29 June 2015
Book Review: Even The Dead - Benjamin Black
John Banville, writing under the pen name Benjamin Black, returns with his seventh Quirke novel Even the Dead.
Even the Dead once more follows John Banville's pathologist creation Quirke through a journey into the seedy underground world of murder in 1950s Dublin. Although the Quirke series is essentially in the crime fiction drama, Even the Dead is much more than a page-turning thriller. By this seventh book in the Quirke series Banville has made the pathologist, and the life he lives and people he is close to, the prime focus of the novel with the whodunit taking a lesser focus by far.
Even the Dead once more follows John Banville's pathologist creation Quirke through a journey into the seedy underground world of murder in 1950s Dublin. Although the Quirke series is essentially in the crime fiction drama, Even the Dead is much more than a page-turning thriller. By this seventh book in the Quirke series Banville has made the pathologist, and the life he lives and people he is close to, the prime focus of the novel with the whodunit taking a lesser focus by far.3 April 2015
Book Review: Munich Airport - Greg Baxter
Munich Airport is a sombre and unique telling of a time of great family grief and is a truly original and poignant novel by Greg Baxter.
Greg Baxter's Munich Airport tells the story of a tragic journey a man and his father make to Germany to bring home the remains of Miriam, the narrator's sister, who was found starved to death in her Berlin flat. Narrated by her brother, the whole novel is told without chapters, hopping in and out from past to present to future, like the fog that surrounds the airport when the father and son get there on the final leg of their tragic journey to bring Miriam home - a fog which causes chaos for passengers stranded there - the story tells of a mind wrapped in loss and confusion at how to comprehend and come to terms with such a shocking loss.
Greg Baxter's Munich Airport tells the story of a tragic journey a man and his father make to Germany to bring home the remains of Miriam, the narrator's sister, who was found starved to death in her Berlin flat. Narrated by her brother, the whole novel is told without chapters, hopping in and out from past to present to future, like the fog that surrounds the airport when the father and son get there on the final leg of their tragic journey to bring Miriam home - a fog which causes chaos for passengers stranded there - the story tells of a mind wrapped in loss and confusion at how to comprehend and come to terms with such a shocking loss.
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