Trespasses: The most beautiful, devastating love story you’ll read this year

Trespasses: The most beautiful, devastating love story you’ll read this year

Taschenbuch
3.73

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Beschreibung

There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.

As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like 'petrol bomb' and 'rubber bullets'. And as she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross, tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.
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3,5/5 It is hard to put into words how I feel about this book. It is objectively well written and interesting, but some aspects just didn’t capture my attention. First and foremost, the relationship between a young woman and a married older man. This trope to me is somewhat of an old shoe. Furthermore, I was missing “flavour,” details, a certain depth, maybe a sense of ornamental language (I cannot quite put it into words); though I do understand why the book is written this way. Nevertheless, I did like the presentation of the topic, the Troubles in Ireland during the 1970s. I also liked Cushla’s portrayal, as an empathetic woman bestowed with a wide array of emotions. Kennedy definitely gave me a better understanding of the time, subject and also of the way Belfast looked back then. Additionally, the last maybe 50 pages really captured me, so I’d give them a 4,5/5. All in all I might have been most “turned off” by the character and behaviour of Michael as well as by the depiction of his “friends”, which tainted my opinion of the book though again my opinion changed slightly towards the end of the book. …Also I’m not going to lie, I miss quotation marks.

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