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# Akin Hardcover – September 10, 2019

**Brand:** emma donoghue
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- **What is this?** Akin Hardcover – September 10, 2019 by emma donoghue
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## Customer Reviews

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    I loved this book!
  

*by S***Q on Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2019*

I bought this book because I liked Room so much, and I liked the set up for this story of a 79 year old man making a trip to Nice, France with his newly aquatinted, 11 year old foul mouthed great nephew.  Others have summarized the story. I’d just like to say that I am a huge reader and I loved this book.  I liked the two characters, the setting, their interactions with each other, the humor and the empathy that the uncle was able to display in order to understand and interact better with his gr-nephew.  The reason for the trip, in order to learn more about his own mother’s life during the war, was interesting and helped start the fragile bond the young boy began with this side of his family.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Darkness in the sun
  

*by K***C on Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2019*

We first meet Upper West Sider Noah Selvaggio on the cusp of his 80th birthday as he makes final preparations to spend a week in Nice, the city of his birth, a city he hasn't seen since being removed from there as a child in 1944. Having been widowed 10 years before, he is accustomed to being alone, but just before his departure date he finds himself with an eleven year old grand nephew, and "Being alone, his normal condition for the past decade, was forbidden to Noah this week." What makes Emma Donoghue's writing so immersive is she doesn't take the easy route, there are no shortcuts or cliches here. This is a perfect example of why author visits are so important. Although I finished the book yesterday, I decided to write my review after lunch with her today, and was rewarded with insights unavailable previously. For instance, she shared the part her own son played in the development of the character of Michael, how an eleven-year-old would behave and talk, is given shape through her son's suggestions. So Michael is more relatable as a person than usual.When asked how she made all her books so different from one another, she remarked that she got easily bored, and would use research only once instead of regurgitating the material in future works. And this book grew out of fascination and affection with the city of Nice through living there for a year, the landscape and the history, the food (she giggled when saying that all those delicious meals could be written off as research). And the life of Henri Matisse and his relationship with his daughter. This therefore is not the usual Holocaust story, but one based on a little known historical fact thanks to the unique geographic location of Nice and the part it has played. Emma Donoghue says she looks at the sun drenched beauty of Nice's seascape, and also sees the dark underside that took place there, and she illuminates even while she humanizes.

### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Disappoinment for Donoghue Fan
  

*by L***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2019*

I would like to start this review by saying that I am a fan of Emma Donoghue. She is an extremely talented and intelligent author. She is capable of creating characters you feel you know and novels of great depth that you can completely disappear into. My personal favorite is Frog Music, Slammerkin and The Sealed Letter are also excellent and I highly recommend them. Akin, however, was a disappointment. The characters feel two dimensional, the interactions between the elderly Noah and the adolescent Michael are lazy and cliched. The "mysteries" of Noah's mother and Michael's father are explored halfheartedly. I might not have judged this novel so harshly if it's author weren't so brilliant.  I also would have never read the whole novel had it been by a lesser author. I see by the many 5 star reviews that others disagree with me but to me this felt like Ms Donoghue was just phoning it in.

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