Dark side of love - Rafik Schami

Nominated for the independent foreign Fiction Prize 2010

Translated from the German by Anthea Bell

The dark side of love is epic in every sense of the word.

850 Pages are imposing.The write quality exceeds the ordinary.The story includes a stunning period after three generations as political change forces their lives in various directions.There is a hero, the battles against odds, to capture your heart.

The dark side of love is Syria and follows two feuding families from 1907 through 1970. The main characters are Rana and Farid, a few covered are together but in love, unable due to generations of hatred between rival clans to be. 

 The gap between the families Mushtak and Shanin was deep. Later, nobody can say just how their hostility had begun, but the children of both families were convinced that you would make friends ahead of a hostile clans with the devil.

 The first 300 pages of this book has been slow going.New characters seemed to be introduced each page, and I found it nearly impossible to track that everyone was.At the end I it works abandoned and approached each chapter as if it were a short story try. This worked really well and I found myself treated to many Syrian myths and Legenden.Ich found fascinating and so the details of your life although I could tell, half the people who never had I lost interest in the book.It took more than two months the first 400 pages but I'm glad that I took up the time to absorb their world as I think that it second half of the book made even better.

The focus of the book, the story was more conventional and the focus shifted to Farid.Dies increases the pace of the book, and I managed to complete the second half in just two weeks. Farid finds many terrible situations, both political and personal, but herzzerreißend.Ihre are the lengths that he is going to try with Rana love was so strong and realistic that this has become one of my favorite romance.

Pretend let you not think this is a happy book but-there are a lot of violence and Leid.Ich would like a cross between A fine balance and describe Palace walk.The complex political and religious situations in Syria are woven with more personal stories of families who try to arrange to cheap marriages for your children or find suitable jobs.There I learned so much from reading this book, but I will read again, as I'm sure that many more levels would show.

This is not easy to read, but it is worth the effort wohl.Ich think it is a literary masterpiece and everyone in the Oriental literature interested ensure should read.

Strongly recommended.

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