Friday, February 6, 2009

A Tale of Communists, Nazis, Farmers, Villagers, and the Absent Ones: Poland in 1990's

In the Memory of the Forest In the Memory of the Forest by Charles Powers


My review


rating: 3 of 5 stars
While I only gave this book 3 stars, I ended up thinking the second half was far superior to the first half. The characters were, to some extent, archetypal of various time periods in recent Polish history. But the author had some very interesting observations of the physical landscape that were, in turn, poetic and lyrical or just plain informative. The story is sad on many levels, just as life often is.