Elisa Dell'Aglio answers “hey guys! I am not a native, but I'm not...”

Ha Med asked this question about Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1):

hey guys! I am not a native, but I'm not new to novels....... I cant quite understand the text in this book, Am I the only one??? should I read another book prior to this one in ortherto understand??? (the literary books I had read and came across with no problem at all: pride and prejudice, Frankenstein etc,,, ) thanks in advance

Elisa Dell'Aglio I know it's an old thread but I just wanted to add my personal experience. I am not a native English speaker. I bought this book togheter with the Phy…moreI know it's an old thread but I just wanted to add my personal experience. I am not a native English speaker. I bought this book togheter with the Physics Nobel Prize Winner Feyman's "Six Easy Pieces". I bought both books in Italian... and guess which one I found more difficult?
Definately Beloved! It was quite hard to understand the plot, especially in the first pages, but even in the course of the book: various details are only evoked and never clarified. It is an Author's choice, I guess to suggest that some things are so painful, so inexplicable, that cannot be totally explained, or told.(less)

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