It's a very long story, the book is more than 600 pages. That wouldn't be so bad if I didn't found an awful lot of repeating sentences. Still, the story is... Well... Typical Grunberg? It's something absurd, something nihilistic, something humourous and yet interesting enough to read on. The main story is from the viewpoint of a little girl, which sometimes made me think I was reading a Roald Dahl novel (Matilda?), but only less imaginative.
As most of his books, I always have the feeling that something isn't right. It's also the reason why I like to read some of his books. Our Uncle definitly belongs to this collection.
There are a lot of remarkable quotes, but none of them really describes the theme, I guess... Like I said, I always have the feeling that something isn't right. I don't want to say that's the theme, but it makes me think and I believe it can make you think about things too.
When everything is right, it's no fun to write about. Also not to read.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel this way when I read books by other writers, still I like to read those too. I don't know if Grunberg had fun writing about things that don't seem to be right, but I hope he did.
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