At a glance, a normal couple Henry and Clare Detamble are living in
Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Henry works at a
Library and Clare creates abstract paper art. Henry is a prisoner of time. Time controls him and sometimes he forgets everything except the work. He does not even care for the leisure hours and
continues his job. It almost drops him naked and vulnerable into another decade, bearing wearing an age-appropriate face.
This is one of the most interesting and powerful book I have read in a long time. Author has done a beautiful job by taking some of the most complex ideas – childhood, growing, friends, love, marriage, children, art and literary, religion, death, drugs, loss, time travel, and what it means to be human - and coupling them together poetically and tightly with amazing clarity.
All the characters are wonderful throughout the book. In real life, people with strengths and flaws, and it really matters to all. Every event is sequenced in such a way that you still witness each character's development as a person.
Imagine a person growing up with lot of ambitions, but lack of ideas makes him take some other way of life. The story deals with similar scenario where Henry dreams about making a grand life. He does not realize the fact that dreaming does not make him the man he wants to be. Still he manages to feel satisfied with what he has achieved. He comes across each and every aspects of life with his own approach towards them. Author narrates every bit of the story carefully as if it touches the mind of everyone. There are some special meanings of love and romance. This is not being realized by Henry as most of us would do. But the writing skills of
Audrey Niffenegger make everyone feel it in right way. The story mostly concerns Henry, the poor librarian at the Newberry Library located in Chicago who suffers from CDP (Chrono-Displacement Order) which drifts him from the present to some other point of time. His artist wife really suffers because of Henry’s
disorder. For example Henry might be in the stacks of the Newberry Library in 2003 and for the next minute he finds himself naked in a field with his future wife as early in 1980’s.
It starts with the childhood story of Henry and continues to give you the glimpses of his early age life and the change in his character as he grows up. As every common man, he finds a perfect love, gets knotted with her and continues his romantic life. But the disorder makes his wife feel pity about him and her. They rarely come across the supporting roles in the story which could have been better developed by the author. It is common that Henry sometimes drifts into other Henry at some other point of time and tries to help him out in a jam. This may look strange but the disorder which Henry has makes him like that. Totally a book which is worth reading.
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