A Double Life

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Karolina Pavlova, born Karolina Jaenisch in 1807, was a Russian poet and translator and presided over a famous Moscow literary salon. The inevitable result of privilege and power versus a victim’s truth forces the family to move and change their identity. Claire’s father, based on the real-life dastard Lord Lucan, loved her mother, until he grew tired of her. Claire was a young child when someone broke into her home, killed her nanny and brutally attacked her mother.

An ex-pupil of Manchester Grammar School, and with two degrees in History, he has been a full-time historian and critic for three decades. I wondered, at that point, whether the book had an editor, or whether it was just so long, they’d simply skipped over the page. As such, The Double Life of Benson Yu is a difficult book to read — not because the text is challenging, but because there’s a prevailing feeling of dread that permeates it from cover to cover. Philby was an intelligence officer with MI6 - and also a double agent with the KGB, passing highly classified information to the Russians.This book just got better and better… Holy smokes did I dig myself into this book and not let go… Brilliant. This novel, therefore, should be read and reread not as a novelty or a token—a woman’s work in a still overwhelmingly male canon—but as a daring and sophisticated work of nineteenth century Russian prose. Imagine how different your life would be if you knew when someone was lying or telling you the truth. I love how its really not about whether he’s guilty or not but about how the lives he left behind him are indelibly altered. During the inquest her reputation is brought into question including concerns over her mental health and her sexual proclivities.

This thriller has more the feel of a Joyce Carol Oates or Joyce Maynard, with significant character development, and the "thrilling" elements often take lesser importance that the experiences and feelings of the characters.Me ha costado un mundo leerlo, es una historia lenta aunque bien narrada y para ser honesta me parece que me ha costado y que el sinsabor que me ha dejado el libro es provocado más debido a que encontré algo que no esperaba al leer este libro, me esperaba más bien un thriller o una novela negra o algo parecido y más bien me he encontrado con un libro narrado en primera persona que presenta una serie de cavilaciones provenientes de la mente de la protagonista, ha sido una agonía personal leerla. Termina recuperando el ritmo, pero en mi caso ya era demasiado tarde y si no se hubiese tratado de un libro de colaboración, habría abandonado la lectura antes de finalizarla.