Book Count (since 1 January 2012)

Book Count (since 1 January 2014): 30

Saturday 26 June 2010

Troubles by J.G. Farrell

This book was originally published in 1970 and recently won the "lost" booker prize, which is a prize set up to honour novels which did not qualify for entry into the prize when published.

The novel is set in Ireland just after the first world war. An English army major goes to visit is fiance, whom he has only meet once on a three day leave earlier in the war. His fiance is Irish and her family run a dilpidated hotel on the Irish coast. The narrative is very gentle and charts the majors return to real life following the war with an undercurrent of the Irish troubles. Personally I thought this was a bit boring. I enjoyed the characters who were easy to relate to and there are some lovely parts of this book. However, it is very slow paced and does not focus enough on any of the main themes so it is a bit lacking in direction. I did like this book but I didn't love it and I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

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