What would you leave behind in The Museum of Broken Promises?
It's quite a question to think about when you have lived many years, or even less. Being twenty five myself, it does make me look back on promises both I have made and broken and promises that has been made to me and broken too. It is quite a thought provoking question.
The Museum of Broken Promises by Elizabeth Buchan is a book that is filled with heartache and power, it weaves a web of suspense, terror and that of a love story when it comes to Laure and Tomas relationship and her moving story. Told between the present day and the past, we come to learn of Laure's own history and of her own token which has been placed within the Museum.
Moving between the present and the past, we learn of hard truths and hardships of living in a country where everything you do is watched and everything you say is listened too. In a place where trying to fight back against the regime could end you in prison, to become one of the vanished from the 80's.
Written beautifully, the author has managed to create such an atmosphere, that you can't help but be drawn in to the story line deeply, to feel the way each character feels and their emotions. The story told is powerful and makes you push the boundaries of your own thoughts.
It's quite a question to think about when you have lived many years, or even less. Being twenty five myself, it does make me look back on promises both I have made and broken and promises that has been made to me and broken too. It is quite a thought provoking question.
The Museum of Broken Promises by Elizabeth Buchan is a book that is filled with heartache and power, it weaves a web of suspense, terror and that of a love story when it comes to Laure and Tomas relationship and her moving story. Told between the present day and the past, we come to learn of Laure's own history and of her own token which has been placed within the Museum.
Moving between the present and the past, we learn of hard truths and hardships of living in a country where everything you do is watched and everything you say is listened too. In a place where trying to fight back against the regime could end you in prison, to become one of the vanished from the 80's.
Written beautifully, the author has managed to create such an atmosphere, that you can't help but be drawn in to the story line deeply, to feel the way each character feels and their emotions. The story told is powerful and makes you push the boundaries of your own thoughts.