I’d put off reading this, as it was in the pile of 3 for 2 books which
included Reading Lolita in Tehran, which I liked, and
Slaughterhouse 5, which I really didn’t. I should not have put it
off.
It’s a mystery, sort of, set in World War 1 Britain.
It has a very familiar, though never explicitly named, main
character—"an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous
detective", to quote the back cover—who leaves his home and bees to help a
nine year old mute German Jewish boy find his missing pet parrot.
It is fantastic, and a really really fast read. It doesn’t hurt that
it’s only 131 pages in the double-spaced moderately large print often
used for this sort of paperback. (It may be a book club
edition—lots of reviews and an interview in the back with the
author, and the same typesetting as Reading Lolita in Tehran, which
had book group discussion questions in the back.)
Books Read in 2006: 24
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