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Oskar Schell is a very funny and smart kid – so much so that it comes at the expense of making his character not real and believable – and this little kid is on a mission that will piece together the history of a family over a few generations. The little girl in The History of Love was doing the same, and you end up thinking: This surely can’t be a coincidence. I wonder if Foer and Nicole Krauss talk to each other regarding their books when they’re writing them. Do they read each other’s manuscripts? Do they give feedback, and influence each other’s writing? After reading three books by this couple, I think I can see a pattern. Both of them write stories that span over generations and are narrated by different people at different times and with different styles. The stories are about human tragedies of grand scale and hit you pretty hard emotionally. I’ve really liked these three books, but I wish they would direct their talent to writing something different for a change. Regardless of inter-couple influence and similarities, this is another great book by Foer, and is very inventive and original when you get down to the details of the story. I really liked his bold experiments with unconventional writing styles and inserting pictures in his book.

2022-11-14 16:44