The Story Of My Disappearance A Novel By Paul Watkins Hardcover

The Story Of My Disappearance A Novel By Paul Watkins Hardcover The book has a nice start, raises ones curiosity quick then drifts a bit. i think that the story was damaged by the use of a love story with suleika. her character was uninteresting, obstuctive, and could have been replaced with a good dog. it almost seemed as though watkins felt forced to insert love scenes that went nowhere. "my disappearance" is written in the first person. the narrator (later named paul watkins) weaves the stories of his three lives east german soldier spy in afghanistan, spy in america and lover in america into a quilt made up of wonerfully woven words and twisting plotlines.

Book Of The Disappeared University Of Michigan Press The story of my disappearance: a novel although paul wedekind has created a new life for himself as a fisherman on the coast of rhode island, he is haunted by his violent past. as a patriotic young man, he enlisted in the east german stasi and was sent to afghanistan, where he and a friend were taken prisoner by the mujahadin. That's the beginning of this very well written story. it's hard to decide what genre the novel belongs to; it's part mystery, part thriller, part philosophical examination of who and what we are. the narrator, paul wedekind, who anglicizes his name to paul watkins, we learn through an assortment of flashbacks, is a soviet spy, forced into the. Isbn13: 9780312200268. release date: march 1999. publisher: st. martins press 3pl. length: 224 pages. weight: 0.55 lbs. dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2". buy a cheap copy of the story of my disappearance: a novel book by paul watkins. although paul wedekind has created a new life for himself as a fisherman on the coast of rhode island, he is. A sixth novel, both action packed and curiously muted, from the accomplished young author of such varied and adventurous fiction as night over day over night (1988) and archangel (1996). the protagonist paul wedekind relates, both in chronological order and interpolated extended flashbacks, his history as a promising engineering student in his native east germany, recruitment by the secret.