Katie Kitamura

Very nice. A very good book. Interesting subjects, moving depiction of a certain alienation and quiet search for belonging. A lovely ending that feels right. There can be no intimacy in a world committed to…the neutrality of professionalism.

A well written, tense narrative of a marriage. The bonds it created, the illusion and reality of those bonds. A woman well into a secret separation from her husband is forced into a different relationship with him when he dies suddenly. I kept feeling like something more was going to happen. Nothing did. It was interesting without being very philosophical, but it’s easy readability and sense of impending meaning made it hum along and then spin out the inherent meaninglessness of most things…

I received a copy from a Goodreads giveaway. A very good read. I loved the writing style. It's sometimes hypnotic and seems to reflect the disjointed feelings of the narrator. The story moves along slowly while the psychological tension builds and there are some keen observations of men/women/marriage. I'd like to read her earlier books.

Good writing; but a weak story line; translator at the Hague; relationship with a married man who wouldn’t leave his family