markusreads reviewed Adler Und Engel by Juli Zeh
Read a long time ago, still my favorite by Juli Zeh
5 stars
Somehow it already had everything in it all the other books which came after had only parts of, and maybe even something more. It's perspective felt more engaged, less analyzed as some of the later books.. the book's timeline is also not completely coherent, but that fits the perspective. It was the second book I read of hers, the first one being a non-fiction on digital freedom. Really hope to get the time to read the large novels she started with Unter Leuten and folowups Uber Menschen and Leere Herzen, but as I got them as hardbound they'reto big to take on my daily commute. I read most of the books between Adler und Engel and Unter Leuten, some of which where reads like you would a Durrenmat, some of them a good pamflet of freedom versus the overreaches of state, school and society.. but this one is still special, …
Somehow it already had everything in it all the other books which came after had only parts of, and maybe even something more. It's perspective felt more engaged, less analyzed as some of the later books.. the book's timeline is also not completely coherent, but that fits the perspective. It was the second book I read of hers, the first one being a non-fiction on digital freedom. Really hope to get the time to read the large novels she started with Unter Leuten and folowups Uber Menschen and Leere Herzen, but as I got them as hardbound they'reto big to take on my daily commute. I read most of the books between Adler und Engel and Unter Leuten, some of which where reads like you would a Durrenmat, some of them a good pamflet of freedom versus the overreaches of state, school and society.. but this one is still special, maybe because I had traveled the same places as described in the book, although 5 to 10 years earlier.
