I just finished the latest novel by Jonathan Coe and I can already say that it will join my top list last ten years!
'The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim ' by Jonathan Coe (2010 -339 pages)
Minimum level required: B2
(to determine your level of reading, see the pages of June 09 of this blog)
This is a novel ' Français to the Bone': it rains, the narrator is at wit's end, it connects minimum and maximum setbacks, but it s 'attaches only because it is good English' Stiff Upper Lip 'what happens to him.
Maxwell Sim is also terribly 2010: a smartphone in your pocket, a laptop allowing it to connect to Facebook (and 70 friends!) From any hotel room, he toured Great Britain aboard a hybrid car with a GPS to the sweet voice that helps him find his way from London to Edinburgh ...
For it is a modern figure - understand reality: very very alone - as we follow along these 339 pages. We apostrophe, question us, but we can offer him a Helping Hand .
Jonathan Coe, faithful to the prose that could appreciate tapered in his earlier books, written by a truly remarkable novel, and until the very last line (which would like me to leave you speechless).
Not recommended for readers too young - and adults too depressed to readers!
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