Magnus

Who am I? Who are you? Who goes there? These most important questions that all of us ultimately ask -- the answers to which we so rarely adequately receive -- this novel is, on one level, about those questions. On another level, it is about a person, from early childhood till middleage, and his life as he tries to find the answer to who he truly is. We first see him as apparently the young son of an SS nazi doctor, then as a young man in England, Mexico, California, then back to Europe as he deals with guilt (that is certainly not his), a growing understanding of who he is not, but not who he is. Many of his greatest discoveries come in the midst of the griefs that life sometimes brings. So, yes, it is a good novel in terms of the story. But in terms of the writing itself, this transcents good and becomes great. This is a truly great novel. This is nobel prize great. I love Sylvie Germain, and it truly grieves me that there are 3000 reviews for some pop books, and only my inadequate one for this work of brilliant art.