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4.0 out of 5 stars
Early Mulish revealingly insightful,
By Boyd (Paris/Cardif/Rotterdam) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Two Women (Hardcover)
Two women does not have the grandeur of a Discovery of Heaven, Last Call or The Assault; but it is not meant in this way. The characters in this smaller novel of Mulish show traces of the themes Mulish uses throughout his organic oeuvre. The plot is mesmerizing as it unwinds and gives us insight into the lives of ordinary people that struggle with coming to terms with what counts in their lives; namely love and their loved ones. It also serves as an example of how same-sex love is nothing out of the ordinary, and even though this might now seem somewhat outdated (the book was published early 1970s) for the Netherlands at least, this only proves that through such book as Mulishes we have established something of a more normal outlook on love in all its forms.
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Poignant,
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This review is from: Two Women (Paperback)
As an expatriate living in The Netherlands, I've read a number of Mulisch's books. It's part of the naturalization process. Until now I've been either unimpressed or disliked them all. Anti-climatic and forced come to mind. "Two Women", however, redeemed Mulisch for me. I stayed up the entire night reading it. I was breathless.
It is my intention to read it again today. It is a book I feel compelled to study. I read the book in Dutch and thus I can't vouch for the English translation. In Dutch it is stunning. Poignant. It speaks of the landscape and the culture and the language in a way that few other Dutch classics do.
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Beautiful book!,
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This review is from: Two Women (Paperback)
Unbelievable that this book was written 30 years ago and that it was written by a man...A beautiful, unadorned love story of the relationship between 2 women, Laura and Sylvia. The narrator, Laura, is on her way to Nice (France), where her mother has died. Meanwhile she recounts the events of the past half year. Out of the blue she fell in love with the much younger Sylvia. For both of them this is their first experience with lesbian love, but everything seems to go pretty normal. Except that it becomes more and more apparent that Sylvia has huge problems communicating and in the end this leads to her fall. A book that is absolutely worthwhile to read, a classic of Dutch literature.
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