I would not recommend this book. It’s about a young woman who is a mathematician and is also searching for the truth about her parentage. She has a mysterious notebook in German, which is introduced right at the start, and you realize that it is going to be the key both to her family history and to a mathematical breakthrough. The author tried to incorporate too many concepts into this short novel (I finished it in a couple of hours), including Nazism, anti-Asian sentiment, racism, misogyny, class privilege, anti-Communism, the Vietnam War etc. The heroine is badly fleshed out and you never get a sense of what she’s really thinking or feeling.
I would not recommend this book. It’s about a young woman who is a mathematician and is also searching for the truth about her parentage. She has a mysterious notebook in German, which is introduced right at the start, and you realize that it is going to be the key both to her family history and to a mathematical breakthrough. The author tried to incorporate too many concepts into this short novel (I finished it in a couple of hours), including Nazism, anti-Asian sentiment, racism, misogyny, class privilege, anti-Communism, the Vietnam War etc. The heroine is badly fleshed out and you never get a sense of what she’s really thinking or feeling.