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The Life of Objects

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In 1938, seventeen-year-old Beatrice, an Irish Protestant lace maker, finds herself at the center of a fairy tale when she is whisked away from her dreary life to join the Berlin household of Felix and Dorothea Metzenburg. Art collectors, and friends to the most fascinating men and women in Europe, the Metzenburgs introduce Beatrice to a world in which she finds more to de...more

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Published September 18th 2012 by Knopf (first published September 1st 2012)

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Oct 11, 2012 Nancy Kennedy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Beatrice Palmer, a young woman in the west of Ireland, is bored with her constricting life as a shop girl in her family's haberdashery. Her life offers no possibilities until a glamorous countess comes along and whisks her away to a life of privilege in the wealthy household of the Metzenburg family in Germany. She imagines herself the lucky girl living a fairy tale life: "I, who'd been properly bewitched, was accompanying her to a distant kingdom where I would live in an enchanted forest and sp...more Beatrice Palmer, a young woman in the west of Ireland, is bored with her constricting life as a shop girl in her family's haberdashery. Her life offers no possibilities until a glamorous countess comes along and whisks her away to a life of privilege in the wealthy household of the Metzenburg family in Germany. She imagines herself the lucky girl living a fairy tale life: "I, who'd been properly bewitched, was accompanying her to a distant kingdom where I would live in an enchanted forest and spin flax into gold."

Unfortunately, the year is 1938, Hitler is on the rise and World War II looms on the near horizon. When it becomes clear that war is inevitable, Beatrice has the option to return home, but her desire to live a larger life keeps her loyal to Felix and Dorothea Metzenburg.

Many stories of impending war center on people who either don't know or can't let themselves believe the consequences of staying. The Metzenburgs (in particular, Felix) understand the consequences and yet decide to remain. For Felix, it isn't a loyalty to his country or a love of his estate (it's his wife's ancestral home). Instead, it's a soul-deep connection to his objects, his "treasure" as the family calls it. He stays to protect his priceless collection of art, antiques, jewelry and porcelain. These objects are in essence his identity; he has no desire to live in a world without their beauty.

For varying reasons, everyone decides to stay: Beatrice, because she wants no other life; servants, out of loyalty to their employers; Dorothea, out of love for her husband. The tragedy of war and eventually the horrors of living under Soviet rule engulf the protagonists. Felix's treasures take on new meaning, as they become central to survival.

I appreciated the writer's restraint. Beatrice doesn't cut the apron strings only to become entangled in scandalous behavior. Her desires are modest, her pleasures simple. She is a good and conscientious girl, naive in many ways, but also loyal, brave and even, in the end, heroic. The war, she realizes, made her who she is and she knows she is the better for it.

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Apr 12, 2013 Lynn rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Life of Objects, a novel by Susanna Moore is a rich evocative story, told in a first person account by an unworldly young Irish lacemaker. When a German countess comes to her town and admires her work and offers to bring her back to Berlin as a member of her household, Beatrice sees a chance to escape her dreary existence. Little does she know that she is entering the dangerous world of Nazi Germany. Soon the count and countess are politically unsafe, and have to flee to their countryside es...more

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Mar 01, 2013 Judith rated it 1 of 5 stars

Susanna Moore wrote one of my all time favorite sexy suspense mystery novels: "In The Cut". If you are thinking of the movie, starring Meg Ryan, you're on track, but the movie is a mere shadow of this power-house of exquisite prose, captivating characters, and intense action.

Which brings us to the current selection: my 3rd and final attempt to find a comparable experience from this author. "The Life of Objects" brings the reader to Nazi Germany during WWII. This time the story is told from the...more

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Dec 17, 2012 Cleo rated it 2 of 5 stars

The Life of Objects is the story of (you guessed it) Beatrice Adelaide Palmer. She is an Irish lace-maker, and is whisked away in what seems a fairy tale to live with Felix and Dorothea Metzenburg. She is introduced to artists, aristocracy, and actors. But World War II is looming, and the conflict arrives at the Metzenburg's. The family and its servants go to their country estate, and try to preserve the old world. But Nazi terror just keeps advancing. Eventually, the Metzenburgs, who Beatrice (...more

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Dec 13, 2012 Gayle Fleming rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is one of the best novels I have ever read--truly. It is an exquisitely written novel with timing, cadence and perceptiveness that reminds me of a brilliant orchestral piece. The Life of Objects starts off like a fairytale and ends as a horror story. The story is told in the first person by an impressionable young Irish girl, Beatrice Palmer who lives unhappily in a small village with an indifferent father and a downright hateful mother. Her only escape from her dreary life is the school ma...more This is one of the best novels I have ever read--truly. It is an exquisitely written novel with timing, cadence and perceptiveness that reminds me of a brilliant orchestral piece. The Life of Objects starts off like a fairytale and ends as a horror story. The story is told in the first person by an impressionable young Irish girl, Beatrice Palmer who lives unhappily in a small village with an indifferent father and a downright hateful mother. Her only escape from her dreary life is the school master who mentors her and her talent for making beautiful lace.

Here's where the fairytale begins. In sweeps a beautiful exotic Countess who offers her a position with a wealthy German family as a lacemaker. With virtually no hesitation, the opportunity to leave her unsatisfactory life is accepted, much to her mother's distain. A train ride to Germany, fancy new clothes and shoes seem like a dream come true. Although Beatrice, who now begins to use the name given to her by her school master--Maeve, is extremely bright and intelligent, she is quite ignorant of the world. The year is 1938 and she has no idea whatsoever what is going on in Germany.

When she arrives in Berlin instead of lace making she is put to work packing up and hiding the exquisite works of art that belong to her "employers", the Metzenbergs. Her sense of adventure completely blinds her to the reason for all this packing and hiding. Soon the household is forced to depart to the country estate because the military has taken possession of their Berlin home.

The Metzenbergs keep up appearances as the war rages and rumors of what's happening to the Jews fly. It is here, at the country estate and in the village of Lowendorf, that the horror story slowly descends upon the Metzenberg household and the villagers. The resilience and survival instincts of this wealthy, aristocratic couple, while never surrendering to the hatred and capitulation that so many of their national brethren succumb to, is astounding.

The end of this story is definitely not a fairytale, but neither is it hopeless.(less)

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Oct 26, 2012 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Do we own our things or do they own us? This is a common question for those that struggle with the possession of material goods. Readers will find themselves reflecting on this as they read The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore. Opening in Ireland, shortly before WWII, readers are introduced to the young narrator, Beatrice Palmer. A bookish girl, longing for the adventurous life she confronts in novels, and who always seems to be at odds with her mother, Beatrice teaches herself to make lace and...more

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Feb 05, 2013 Danielle rated it 3 of 5 stars

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I was so disappointed by this book. I wanted to love it, but the writing style felt so flat. I kept waiting for events to tie together, for the people to make sense, for someone to step forward as a leading character. None of this happened. While Beatrice was the narrator, I felt she just wasn't written well enough to satisfy my want for a lead role. The couple with whom she "works" for are clumsily put together...... While they are aristocratic they invite Beatrice to join them at dinner...more

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Dec 05, 2012 Victoria rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: fictional-history, lit-fic, world-war-ii

This rather simple novel relays the story of Beatrice (also called Maeve), a young Protestant, Irish woman who leaves Ireland for Germany just before World War II breaks out. She lives with a wealthy couple, the Metzenbergs - ostensibly to make lace for the wife, Dorothea.She ends up working more as their servant. The story is starkly narrated, tinged with Beatrice’s naivete. Because of this almost overly straightforward tone, none of the characters really come to life against this dramatic sett...more

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Oct 16, 2012 Cynthia rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-read-in-2012

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I’m not quite sure what to make of this book. As always Susanna Moore gives us some wonderful prose. I read several of her early books when they were first published, then drifted away from her work. There’s something vaguely unsatisfying about it. It’s difficult to see the point in her plots. In my opinion “Objects” was saved by the last third of the book prior to that it feels like a mish mash of a description of lovely things and of manners from a previous era. After meandering through...more Oblique

I’m not quite sure what to make of this book. As always Susanna Moore gives us some wonderful prose. I read several of her early books when they were first published, then drifted away from her work. There’s something vaguely unsatisfying about it. It’s difficult to see the point in her plots. In my opinion “Objects” was saved by the last third of the book prior to that it feels like a mish mash of a description of lovely things and of manners from a previous era. After meandering through the early years of World War II Maeve/Beatrice, an Irish woman who was lured to Germany based on her lace making skills, has grown up and grown weary all at the same time when war breaks out soon after she arrives. The wealthy couple she’s serving are barely surviving on their country estate when they flee the danger of Berlin. They’re not so isolated that the war and its privations don’t affect them however. There’s little food and they feel an obligation to make sure the locals are taken care of as well. There is a lot seething beneath the surface of Moore’s seemingly straight forward text. Relationships are complex and largely unexpressed or acknowledged. For good and bad reasons no one trusts anyone else.

There is a sprinkling of art history here but not enough to satisfy an art lover, just enough to titillate and horrify. Especially tragic are the fragile paintings that were damaged, lost or destroyed due to war. Even worse is the human toll. There are horrors here but for the most part not the visceral kind. Trust is the chief casualty. No one is what they seem to be or worse they’re exactly what they seem to be. Moore is thorough about the concentrations camps; she lists some I’d never been aware of previously. She succeeds in making World War II personal. The avowed focus on objects made for a disconnect but that was probably her intent.

This review is based on an advanced reading copy supplied by the publisher.

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Mar 08, 2013 Holly rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013-reads, some-recent-favorites

Having recently read HHhH I found myself thinking about the fictionalization of wartime atrocities (Heydrich himself is mentioned in this novel) .... For such a short novel it's remarkable how the entire war is represented - the chapters are entitled 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and a few "years" are only twenty pages long. But the weight of the war and the transformation of the small-scale society and the larger political events feel as if they are all within the novel. Much...more Having recently read HHhH I found myself thinking about the fictionalization of wartime atrocities (Heydrich himself is mentioned in this novel) .... For such a short novel it's remarkable how the entire war is represented - the chapters are entitled 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and a few "years" are only twenty pages long. But the weight of the war and the transformation of the small-scale society and the larger political events feel as if they are all within the novel. Much of it takes place just off-stage, until the Soviets enter Germany.

Two main metaphors operate: (1) Lace and lacework. Like webs linking everything; and material that creates a border but can be glimpsed through - which is necessary because the other metaphor is (2) Hiding. So much is hidden - hiding in plain sight (who is a Jew, who is sleeping with whom, who is a spy, who loves whom, the identities of the personas at the fancy Berlin hotel .... ) and literally hidden (the works of art that Felix is secreting below ground on behalf of the fleeing Jewish wealthy).

The physical objects - that begin as books and birds, then become aesthetics and wealth and opulence (that Beatrice covets).... then as the war proceeds Beatrice's attention to objects is retained but the objects gradually return to the earthly, until she's again cherishing a potato or a carrot or a wildflower. Or a modest piece of clothing to cover her shame.

I would call this measured prose: a measured voice and tone that remarkably never varies in its cadences even during the most horrific incidents. That's undoubtedly why some readers are calling it too "spare" or too "cool" - but that careful voice is something I appreciated for giving the novel a quiet power and depicting how this particular person maintained her inner character through the war.

It calls for close reading - there is subterfuge and messages relayed that the young narrator doesn't understand but that the reader should be able to glean. For example, an elliptical conversation about Ireland's neutrality during the war (and why Beatrice can remain in Germany). The Metzenburgs say more to Beatrice than she can ever understand, but she subconsciously grasps much of what is unfolding around her - as a child or a domestic pet would - even though she wouldn't be able to articulate it. (What a relief not to have to handle an unreliable narrator.)(less)

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Oct 03, 2012 Katherine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fall-2012-the-literary-reckoning

This book was beautiful. I first came to Susanna Moore through "The Big Girls" while in college, and it was such an engrossing read I couldn't wait to get my hands on her newest novel. Moore has a way of writing that completely envelopes you in the worlds she creates, and this certainly wasn't an exception to her enviable rule. This book felt like a journey, in fact it was very reminiscent of classic films from the 50s and 60s in which characters begin in one place at the film's beginning and ta...more

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Dec 17, 2012 Gaurav Sethi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a very quiet novel. A young Irish girl who has a talent for lace is approached by a high-class lady. She'll be offered a job with a wealthy German couple who lives in Berlin. Her dreams are coming true, she's leaving her small town behind. Her life is like one of those books that she's read growing up: a fantastical journey, wealthy people, jewels, politics, fancy dinner parties. There is only one problem: World War II has begun and our young Irish-girl is now at the heart of it all.

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Dec 10, 2012 Holly rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book is interesting in that's it's a story of the people living in Germany during and just after WWII when the displacement, shortages and lack of information makes life so difficult. First though it's the story of a young girl whose life was sheltered growing up in a small town in Ireland. She has never been outside of the small town she lives in and has very little experience outside of her environs. With a little encouragement from her father, not her mother, she learns to make lace and...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Judith Hannan rated it 3 of 5 stars

I wanted to give this book four stars. In many ways, it deserved it. It was an original take on an often told story. It was wordly but specific to its characters. It was vivid in the sense that Moore drew scenes and characters that could be translated into visual images. The problem for me, though, was that the book really didn't grab me until the last quarter. I was reminded of how much I dislike watching basketball games because it is really the only last fifteen minutes that ever seem to mat...more

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Oct 23, 2012 Amy Warrick rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a spare, elegant book...hard to describe. A naive young Irish girl, wishing for more experience, more from life, allows herself to be swept away by an enigmatic older woman, only to land in pre-war Germany. 'Given' to a wealthy family, she is captivated by the luxury and new people - she develops a rather mystifying loyalty and stays with them through the privations of WWII rather than try to get home.

It's almost too spare - Maeve (or Beatrice, depending) is so passive and so much an...more

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Dec 08, 2012 Kay rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: best-of-2012

A beautifully written book by an author who has the rare gift of being able to say profound things in such a simple and direct manner that I had to read slowly in order not to miss anything. It's a very short book, considering how much it contains.

For some reason, many of the books I read this year involved the fate of art, art collectors, and dealers during WWII. (I may have to make a special shelf.) In this case, it's a wealthy Jewish art collector, Felix Metzenberg, and his Gentile wife who r...more

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Feb 11, 2013 Linda Connelly rated it 5 of 5 stars

In a unique way, this short, intense novel transports you a time and place that most of us, thankfully, ever had to experience: pre-war and WW 2 Europe. It conveys the realities, horrors and randomness of life for ordinary and extraordinary people. We have all read about the war, and seen movies that tell us the story of survivors but this book conveys these stories in such a very matter of fact, intimate and personal way that you feel you are walking along side these people in their human trage...more

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Feb 02, 2013 Suzanne Hamilton rated it 3 of 5 stars

While I admire Susanna Moore's writerly craft, I can't give this book a better-than-average rating. The story involves an Irish girl who escapes the drudgery of her life in an isolated village to be deposited in the home of a wealthy German couple just as World War II is gathering steam. I couldn't believe this first premise -- who would accept a girl into their home like that? I was also puzzled by how this couple managed to survive the war without being challenged by the Reich, simply by retre...more

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Oct 12, 2012 Elizabeth Marek rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book tells not uncommon life story during the World War II from completely different perspective. The heroine, Beatrice, an unhappy and somewhat naive Irish girl, travels to Germany at the beginning of the war. The pretext is to became a resident lacemaker for the rich German gentry, but really she is looking for the way out of her unhappy life. Of corse the war changes everything. Beatrice is faced with the brutality hard to imagine. Despite all the hardship she achieves her goal of leavin...more

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Sep 10, 2012 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

An intriguing novel with a new take on life in Germany around the start of World War II, The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore is both captivating and heartbreaking. Moore tells the story of young Beatrice, a 17-year-old who leaves her lace making work to be taken in by the well-to-do and well-connected Metzenburg family of Berlin in 1938. As the German Nazi atrocities become an ever-expanding reality for Europe, the Metzenburgs, their staff, and Beatrice move to the family’s country estate. Face...more

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May 22, 2013 Sean Flores rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: WWII buffs, those interested in German

Recommended to Sean by: Bought it at a reading

I was torn between giving this book a one or a two-star review, but I decided on one because of how long it took me to finish this slim book.

The prose is usually fine but then at times incredibly clumsy. I even found a spelling error towards the end, but I must confess there may be more because I started to speed read the last half of the novel. Normally this would not bother me, but the work here feels sloppy. Written from the perspective of a young Irish woman, The Life of Objects is at times...more I was torn between giving this book a one or a two-star review, but I decided on one because of how long it took me to finish this slim book.

The prose is usually fine but then at times incredibly clumsy. I even found a spelling error towards the end, but I must confess there may be more because I started to speed read the last half of the novel. Normally this would not bother me, but the work here feels sloppy. Written from the perspective of a young Irish woman, The Life of Objects is at times so detached it hurts the book. More time is spent on what people wore rather, how they acted, and what they ate in one specific party that is quite irrelevant, than to the bombing of Berlin that the protagonist endures. It is far too unemotional. At times this works, especially during very emotional scenes, but overall this style weakens the story. I also felt that the characters were loosely constructed, and I could never get a handle on any character. Moore also makes quite a few errors with plot continuity, arbitrarily writing that a character had been suffering from an affliction after the fact. I was often confused, not understanding why a certain character needed to be helped or carried, only to be explained later that it was because they were sick. Moore also never goes into motive for the characters, so things occur out of the blue. This isn't always bad, but it is when I am supposed to understand something from the action, impossible due to the lack of motive.

I understand that the novel is called The Life of Objects, but it's honestly a waste of text to spend page after page describing outdated couture, and especially in such a dry manner. The other emphasis on antiques and relics is likewise difficult; the author uses terms all the time that the reader will very likely not know without any hint as to what something is or why it is important.

I would not recommend this work to others. Frankly I was rather confused by the praise the work has received until I remembered the state of literary criticism today. The only explanation I can conjure for understanding why others have liked it is the strength of the source material, that is, the incredibly powerful event of World War II.(less)

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Apr 16, 2013 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Beatrice’s ability to make lace gives her the opportunity to leave her small Irish village and cold parents, and even though her destination is Berlin with war looming in 1938, she seizes the chance. She is absorbed into the wealthy household of the Metzenburgs, who decide to stay in Germany because of Felix’s loyalties to his country but also to his treasures, various objects of beauty and art. Beatrice becomes a maid/assistant/surrogate child and learns about art, literature, and culture: wart...more

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Mar 12, 2013 Allyson rated it 4 of 5 stars

My only disappointment with this book concerns the ending: it felt too abrupt and insufficient for it's contents.
The odd thing about this very unique read was how in relatively few pages, she conjured a feeling of years passing and experiences lived. It was very unsettling to read but her prose perfectly revealed a certain type of world with people inhabiting places during an awful time. It felt a little removed and dispassionate but was perfectly suited to her characters and the events; spare,...more

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Feb 09, 2013 Renee rated it 3 of 5 stars

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This is a cautionary tale about the lengths a naive and culturally starved mind will go, (straight into world war II Germany,) for the sake of enrichment. A young lacemaker, Beatrice, leaves the safe if culturally bereft comfort of irish country life, to become the lacemaker of a rich family at the beggining of the war. She arrives to learn that the family is hiding their Jewish heritage, and inexplicably stays, while they gradually sell a precious collection of art, rather than leave Germany. T...more

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Jan 18, 2013 Mosunflower rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Mar 01, 2013 Kristie rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a very quiet story that creeps up on you when you least expect it. It is a story we all know, told in a different and heartbreaking way. In some ways it reminded me of The Hare with the Amber Eyes - because it is a story of possessions and the things we collect and love that define us in ways that we might not expect or even understand. The thing that resonated with me in The Life of Objects was how the objects became the currency of survival. The characters are beautifully drawn. Some o...more

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Mar 22, 2013 Susan Willen rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a strange book. It is written in a nineteenth century style, yet takes place during World War 2. The narrator is an Irish girl from a poor family who learns to make lace and, through a strange sequence of events, ends up in Germany working for a wealthy family just as the war begins. The lace-making aspect, which seems major at first, becomes unimportant as the story progresses. Instead the focus is on the German couple and the beautiful objects they own and how their life gradually unra...more

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Dec 11, 2012 Becky rated it 4 of 5 stars

The atrocities of World War II Germany are made to seem even more horrific in Moore's sparse, elegant prose and the understated narration of the main character. This novel does an excellent job of capturing the changes in characters and their relationships with each other as the routines and assumputions about their lives unravel as the war progresses. This is a beautifully written story about the struggles of all the members of a wealthy household as the world as they know it descends into a ni...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Caroline rated it 4 of 5 stars

A truly unique perspective on World War II--from the points of view of both the German family and an Irish outsider, making the reader entirely uncertain of what will happen next and how the characters will make out in the end. Moore has an interesting way of creating characters that the reader comes to know throughout the entire course of the book instead of describing them entirely upon first introducing them into the story. The broken up chapters, staccato in nature, made the novel take on a...more

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Nov 10, 2012 Melanie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Beatrice is a young Irish girls who wants more excitement in her life. She naively leaves her village with a woman she barely knows who promises her an exciting life. She ends up living with Felix and Dorothea Metzenburg in Germany on the eve of WWIi. The story is a study of how important objects can be in our life. Felix chooses to move the household and his beautiful things to the country and passes up several chances to flee the country. Beatrice chooses to stay with the family instead of fle...more

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