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Like Prombtr ,i enjoyed a lot this novel and didn't mind to much the "dairy maid" episode. I might even throw a + on the top of the 4 stars.
I like the slow construction of the story,the relations betwin characteres and their personality.
The friend Jong not looking his father in the eye,then we learn the fathers do not look at eachother themselves,the mother slowly coming in the frame,the war,the resistance.Each indication bring anothers,like the ravel bolero,two instrument,then three,ect,until a full complex partition is playing.
The fathers is really the spine of the novels,charismatic,strong,brave,but also inconsistent,to much on the surface of thing.
It was easy for me to warm up to the narrator.An old man who lost his wife and sister and try to give a sense to his last years by leading an harder but more meaningfulf life country.I liked his choices,he strips his life of all decorum,and i can undestand that in later years one wants to get the escence of things.One does not need to be entertained,or diverted from memories he need to understand.I hate entertainemt or entertaining for that matter.
What surprised me was the absence of drinking.Because those guys up in the north they just live for the booze,don't they.Not a drop.That's suspicious.
The only critic really is that i would have loved to know more about the fate of certain characteres,Jong,the mother,but his choice was to tell of this certain summer,of the friendship of a father and a son,of a betrayal,so be it.