Rampizoor’s attention to the small details missed by larger tellings of history animate the book, and it’s the light of her perspective that makes it something worth reading, which will stay with you long after you’ve put it down. The Nazis are taking over the most popular newspaper to put out their own propaganda, but the Front de l'Indpendance is committed to publishing underground newspapers free from Nazi control.
The story is set in Brussels in 1943 during World War II. But that’s a minor issue, and it’s well worth your time to get past the bumpy beginning. Ramzipoor is a debut novel of historical fiction based in true events.
The characters don’t feel distinct until about 150 pages into the 544-page book. the multiple points of view take some time to coalesce. As for the plot, it’s a rollicking, twisting, turning adventure that’s almost unbelievably complicated, and hangs together on a delicate frame of multiple-point-of-view narration. themes do not feel forced, but instead feel like a true part of history, a part that is too often elided in fiction. It’s very much of the 1940s, and it’s very funny. I noticed the book’s sense of humor because it’s at odds with today’s memetic one. The characters’ wry, sharp dialogue and its sometimes slapstick sensibility owe much to the legacy of Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers. Rampizoor’s attention to the small details missed by larger tellings of history animate the book, and it’s the light of her perspective that makes it something worth reading, which will stay with you long after you’ve put it down.Ramzipoor juggles it deftly, helped by glittering prose, snappy pacing, and a keen sense of humor. But that’s a minor issue, and it’s well worth your time to get past the bumpy beginning. Ramzipoor juggles it deftly, helped by glittering prose, snappy pacing, and a keen sense of humor.
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