Samia's review
The Comfort of Strangers
by Ian McEwan
Samia's review
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Samia's review
rating:
I am very tempted to give this book five stars, but I'm a little hesitant for some reason. Maybe because I haven't figured out how often one can give a book five stars and still have people remotely trust what you are saying. So I'll remain stingy with the stars.
McEwan's characterizations of the main protagonists and his descriptions of an unnamed Southern European city in which they are spending their vacation lead me to recommend this book. The city, with its knotted, labyrinthine alleyways and sun-scorched plazas, takes on aspects of the Colin and Mary's mind as they navigate their own relationship and their relationship to the strangers around them. Their comfort with each other becomes a kind of insulation from the more brutal reality of the surrounding world.
I am also obsessed with tales of travel, and the inward transformations that often accompany them. I think I really loved this book because of how the shape and texture of the city seems to change in response to...more
McEwan's characterizations of the main protagonists and his descriptions of an unnamed Southern European city in which they are spending their vacation lead me to recommend this book. The city, with its knotted, labyrinthine alleyways and sun-scorched plazas, takes on aspects of the Colin and Mary's mind as they navigate their own relationship and their relationship to the strangers around them. Their comfort with each other becomes a kind of insulation from the more brutal reality of the surrounding world.
I am also obsessed with tales of travel, and the inward transformations that often accompany them. I think I really loved this book because of how the shape and texture of the city seems to change in response to...more
