It seemed Romanian (it is) and I was intrigued as I haven’t heard of him before. I decided to read this novel when I saw the name of the author, Chirovici. The written is simple, engaging and I can see a movie being made after the book. It was a fun, light read but it wasn’t extraordinary. The Book of Mirrors is an intelligent, well-paced, decently written thriller set in the academia world. The Book of Mirrors is his first to be written in English.įor me, it was an entertaining read, enjoyable, if a little slow at times. The author was born in Transylvania into a Romanian family, and his earlier novels and non-fiction works were published in his native language. And so the story develops into one of murder and passion.Īs with a hall of mirrors, this well written novel confuses and masks the true picture both of what had happened in 1987 and of what is happening now as paths are re-trodden and old memories awakened. ![]() He therefore passes the baton to someone else. Peter Katz, the literary agent to whom he has sent it, is intrigued to find out the rest of the story, but this proves more complex than he had thought. ![]() It is he who has submitted part of his account of a traumatic period in his life nearly thirty years earlier. ![]() This is a story told by three narrators, each of whom picks up the trail begun by Richard Flynn, then an ex-student from Princeton in New Jersey with aspirations to be a writer.
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