Firstly, The Moment by Douglas Kennedy. This book was a fantastic story about a writer, writing his travel books, his history, his romances, combined with a fascinating insight into life in East and West Germany before the Wall came down.
'Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine - in touch only with his daughter and still trying to reconcile himself to the end of a long marriage that he knew was flawed from the outset - he finds his solitude disrupted by the arrival, one wintry morning, of a box postmarked Berlin. The return address on the box - Dussmann - unsettles him completely. For it is the name of the woman with whom he had an intense love affair twenty-six years ago in Berlin - at a time when the city was cleaved in two, and personal and political allegiances were haunted by the deep shadows of the Cold War. '
There were so many parts of this book that I loved - it was very sad as well as stunningly written. It was mostly about not realizing that we are in 'the moment' - whatever that might be and how wonderful it is and the rest of your life can be shaped by it.
I don't want to give too much away as I think its a brilliant book and I highly recommend it to all.
Next post: 'Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness'.
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