My first meeting with this German writer wasn't spectacular at all. The book that I read in the German version made me optimistically thinking about how easy is to write books about almost everything, without paying attention to the possible reaction of the public. It was written on the occasion of a 10-week scholarship for writers, in New York and Honigmann, a German Jew, is writing about her daily schedule, the meetings with the friend Sanda (Weigl), the interactions with the Jewish life in the city. A couple of descriptions of New York corners, the busy life and the busy and strange people, the kosher offer and other episodic experiences in the stereotypically described Big Apple.
Overall, it is not a travel book or a literary book/diary, but mostly a book that an author enjoying a relative success could write because doesn't care about fame and the bad reviews couldn't change anything from the general perception.
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