Very well written, smart, witty.....makes you think.
The best bit about the book was the way they went on holiday with their bicycles - riding about - and as they ride about you can imagine Germany...the green trees next to the roads, the birds flying about, a river...flowers... you can imagine two lovers riding side by side smiling in the wind with hair billowing about them - almost freezing them in forever....
The most unbelievable part was that when she left him - he just went on with his life to the point where they met again in Court and he felt nothing not a thing... how is that possible? How could he cut himself off so completely? That part wasn't explained and was a bit far fetched... but she was extremely rude to him...so maybe he used all his "mild hatred" for her and all the hurt she caused him to build a cage around his love for her and to eventually suffocate the love and to force himself to forget everything.
The Court trial was amazing... you'd think otherwise when you start reading it, but it was so well written... you could imagine the defendant sitting hunched...listening not listening...arguing a point or merely ignoring proceedings and staring out the window. You can also imagine the now grown up boy...with his pencil in hand making notes for his fellow student... his eyes on the back of her head...burning into her soul...
It had a terrible ending...but you can see why she did what she did? He didn't love her anymore even though she never stopped loving him...till the end... It was a sad tragic end...
NOW he'll never forget her....everything she was will be etched in his soul....painted on his mind - if they had to have written a sequel - he' d probably go mad with the thoughts of her haunting him and either run away or commit suicide.
