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Just because it's set in a war doesn't make it interesting.
The descriptions are poetic at times but after the thousandth list -- there was the table, the clock on the mantel, the cat skittering by, the light from the window -- I ask, what's it all for? Halfway through and what's happened? Tedious as a catalogue but without the point. Add to this the narrative chopped into 6 parts: time, place and character multiplied by two and shuffled. It's a needless bit of choreography which doesn't in the end do anything to make up for the fact that this is -- dare I say it? -- a boring book. Imagine, a book about WWII, bombs falling all around ... and it's still boring. Because having a war for a backdrop doesn't make the action of the characters interesting.
