Karla's review
Waterland
by Graham Swift
Karla's review
Waterland by Graham Swift
Karla's review
rating:
recommended for: Literature enthusiasts
This book is a little difficult to read if you are not into "deep literature." I enjoyed the narrator's plunging backwards and forwards on the timeline, explaining the water people's history of northern england. The narrator happens to be a history teacher so he ties in his present classroom drama and the even worse drama that is his marriage. The police become involved in a kidnapping that his wife commited.
This book has undercurrents of incest, murder, abortion, death, guilt... but it is very well written. I would recommend this to a literature class or a book club because it is one you should talk about with others.
This book has undercurrents of incest, murder, abortion, death, guilt... but it is very well written. I would recommend this to a literature class or a book club because it is one you should talk about with others.
