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Small World - a small title for a great book

"He will no longer know whether it is summer or winter, day or night, he will not be able to dress or wash. He'll be wearing diapers and must be fed, he will know no one, no longer know where he is, and ultimately not remember who he is. "

People are more surprised than as Konrad long after he has burned the magnificent house of the family cook by mistake, will not be released. But Konrad, mid-sixties, is an old family friend who grew up with her son Thomas, and therefore can not simply be abandoned, even when it is increasingly felt as a burden. Because lately he suffers from memory dropouts which was also the cause of the fire in the house.
In this phase Konrad meets the love of his life and wants to build her a new life, to finally its independence to win the all-determining family cook. He soon became even do not know the name of his beloved ...
All observed Elvira Senn, the magnate of the Koch family, which has led since the death of her first husband, the fortunes of the company like a hawk. For more Konrad forget the present, the more the earliest childhood memories push forward. And Elvira is far from right ...

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My opinion

"Small World" is one of the most touching books I've read lately and offers a weird interesting and instructive description of Alzheimer's disease, completely authentic and believable acts. very sympathetic, but without pressing on the tear gland, Suter describes how a man loses slowly to oblivion, until he became a permanent nursing care. Conrad's disease forms the framework of this family story that takes almost Crime traits, the deeper one gets involved in the mystery of the family cook. The resolution of the mystery at the end is not overly surprising, but very well thought out and engrossing as a detective story written.

with ease and an unerring instinct for the right words Suter told in this novel of social criticism, the sad story of Conrad, who range from family life Koch was sustained. He had been an early childhood friend of the poor of the manufacturer's son Thomas, who had to be always there when Thomas asked for his company. His own interests he has always returned and so never something right can make his life, so it is with mid-sixties still rely on donations from the chef. When his memory lapses are getting worse, we see it as a convenient way to deport him in a home.

Konrad I love the course of the book thus obtained as a true family member and was deeply affected when he has left his memory always continue to fail and have rejoiced at every little Success in the fight against Alzheimer's disease. But the other characters are drawn very impressive, such as the young Simon, the wife of the heir of the cooking empire, which is doing hard time in the cold, repellent einzufinden family and accept the affairs of her husband.

Small World is the most successful debut novel by Martin Suter and is considered the first part of the so-called "neurological trilogy, including" The Dark Side of the Moon "and" A Perfect Friend "are and where still a neurological disease in the foreground stands. Conrad's story is not finished with Small World, and very satisfying, I must stick to this point. Who in the book can not take the time, I recommend the same film with Gérard Depardieu, who last year appeared

My conclusion. Absolute Recommended Reading!

Small World - Martin Suter
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Diogenes Verlag Publishing 25th edition (March 1999)
ISBN-10: 3257230885
Price: 9.90 €

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