The lighthouse
Ratings2
Average rating4.5
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Ratings2
Average rating4.5
On the outer deck of a North Sea ferry stands Futh, a middle-aged and newly separated man, on his way to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. After an inexplicably hostile encounter with a hotel landlord, Futh sets out along the Rhine. As he contemplates an earlier trip to Germany and the things he has done in his life, he does not foresee the potentially devastating consequences of things not done. This novel tells the tense, gripping story of a man trying to find himself, but becoming lost.
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Does a masterful job of creating a gripping and unsettling atmosphere throughout, without anything you can really put your finger on. It conveys a sense of bleak foreboding, and of a middle aged sort of accepting loneliness, of futility.
It's hard to say “I enjoyed it” because it's bleak, and with no redemption. But it's real, evocative, and well written.
