I really enjoyed this novel. I would have liked to have more of a history behind the land reform acts (maybe I just missed this in class), but even without it this novel was fantastic. It was a bit frustrating at times having to constantly see the story from different characters perspectives and the overlap got a little old, but over all each character was finely developed.
I thought the main land owner in the story was the most hilarious character throughout this entire tragic novel. I liked how the whole mess began on the fact that he was to scared of his young wife telling the village he was not a "whole man" , to stand up to her and send his lazy son off to war. It was upsetting at times how all of this misfortune was caused due to an insecure male and his body... although that is kinda a nice change (or comparison) to some of the other works we have read and the misfortune girls have endured due to their body images. Anyways thats a tangent.
The loyalty of so many of the characters was touching as well. It was heart breaking to read the passage when the friend of the peasant boy is in the hearse carrying his body back to his home, and he keep wondering if maybe things aren't real. And maybe his friend is actually alive inside of the casket.
The investigator also through me off due to his loyalty to his job, or maybe it was something else...
Anyways all the characters added so much to the story and what started as a comical little read ended up being a very politically charged piece of literature.
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