I had some days off…and that’s when I always read a good book – or try to find a good book to read. This October week I was lucky, because I brought Lloyd Jones’s Hand Me Down World.
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, stolen from her by his father when the boy was just days old and taken to Berlin. With nothing but her maid’s uniform and a knife in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers— some generous, some exploiting—to guide her passage north.
These strangers all tell their story about her, and each account gives a different view of the truth, just like the versions of truth we all create to accomodate our lives. These fragments of a life piece together to create a spellbinding story of her, this woman and mother, who crosses continents searching for her missing child. Not until towards the end, we also get her own version of the story.
It’s haunting and beautiful, because ”Sometimes a person passes through your world and you don’t forget them.” She is one of them, and this is her story. I suggest you read it.
Leya 
Sounds wonderful! Its going on my must read list right away.
Hope you will enjoy it! I like the way it is written from different angles.
Interesting anyway. Thank you for the trailer too! Some books you have to struggle with, yes. ”Hand Me Down World” is not a page turner either, but the different angles and the whole concept is brilliant. I admire the author for this. Maybe I’m a bit ”damaged” from my work to always analyse and deconstruct.
Have you also read Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones?
No, I’m afraid not. I know it is famous, so I guess I will! Could you inform me a bit about it?
It has also been made in to a film.
I struggled with the book Mr Pip; I can’t say I enjoyed it but the ideas and the story of the people under siege at that time were interesting.
Thank you for the recommendation.
Hope you will like it if you choose to read it!