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Title	:	Das Labyrinth der Wörter
Author	:	Marie-Sabine Roger
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 205 pages
Published	:	2010 by Hoffmann und Campe (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Cultural. France

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This is the engaging story of two people who come together in friendship, kindness, affection, and appreciation. A remarkable and heart-rending novel that perfectly illustrates the quote:
“Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.”

The first lines of “Soft in the head” hooked me:

“I’ve decided to adopt Margueritte. She’ll be eighty-six any day now so there seemed no point putting it off. Old people have a tendency to die."

and I loved every word and nuance that followed.

“When people are always cutting you down, you don’t get a chance to grow.”

Germain is, by his own definition, a forty-five year old thug. A man large in both stature and heart, who has been belittled by everyone in his life, but most particularly by his mother and his teachers. He lives in a tiny caravan at the bottom of his mother’s garden. He and his mother seldom speak. She considers him an ignorant nuisance, actually goes so far as to call him a worthless halfwit, and has never shown him any hint of maternal love.

Lacking in tact and social graces, he is frequently the butt of jokes and innuendo that he almost, but not quite, understands. He is of less than average intelligence, but he has a great thirst for new words and stories. He believes that if he knew more words he would be able to get his point across better and people would think of him as being less ‘stupid’.

But, I’m getting ahead of myself…. Germain only begins to think this way after he meets up with an eighty-six year old woman by the name of Margueritte. Margueritte is a very intelligent and well read woman. And, more importantly, she has time for Germain and talks to him with respect. Respect is something that Germain has never before experienced and he finds it to be a wonderful thing.

“… she always talked to me like I was a person. And you see, that can change a man.”

She reads him passages from the book she is reading, “The plague” by Albert Camus. Germain is a good listener and he suspects that Margueritte’s love of books and reading are what make her ‘smart’.

“By accident, Margueritte had triggered a burning desire for thinking, it was like my brain had a hard on.”

Germain sees beyond her exterior. He says: “When I look at Margueritte, it’s funny, I don’t see a little old lady who weighs about forty kilos, all crumpled like a poppy, her spine a little bent and her hands all shrivelled, I see that in her head she has thousands of bookshelves all carefully catalogued and numbered."

Margueritte introduces Germain to his own potential. She gives him a dictionary with little flash cards so that he will know what order the letters come in. It is because of her that he discovers the riches that can be discovered in libraries.

What a delightful and heart-warming book! I’m going to recommend it to everyone I know. I haven’t enjoyed a little novel this much since Fredrik Backman’s "A man called Ove".

I heartily recommend this novel to bibliophiles everywhere. It is a timeless novel of human regard, respect and connection. It is also a treatise on how books and reading opens minds and exposes new worlds for the reader.

It will make you smile and weep. What more can a reader ask for?

Sincere thanks to Pushkin Press via NetGalley for providing me with a digital copy of this novel in consideration of a review.

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Original Title:	La tête en friche
ISBN:	3455402542 (ISBN13: 9783455402544)
Edition Language:	German

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*4.5I thought this was going to be a quick read but nooo. Each chapter is about 2-5 pages long but I had to stop reading after a couple because the conversations Germain has and the things he starts thinking about is thought-provoking. Because his character is someone who is "soft in the head" it's refreshing to see his take on a lot of things we tend to take for granted. Though it is a light read and considering the sexual innuendos, I found it pretty funny. Overall I don't think this book

Such a beautiful and elegant story of a young man, middle-aged really, who's learning ability has always been below the norm, and an elderly woman, who meet in what I imagine to be a quaint, lovely park, both unaware that they each count the pigeons that land and run and peck for crumbs.Marguerite is friendly and gentle to Germaine, and does not call attention to some of the mistakes he makes with words, or his confusion about many things he really doesn't understand.She becomes his caring

Translated from the original 2008 French. A sweet story about what happens when Germain (45) meets Margueritte (85) in the park one day. Germain has intellectual deficiencies (which are not exactly clear since he is the narrator of the story so we are limited to what he knows), and has been bullied and abused at home and with friends his whole life because of that. Margueritte listens to him and speaks to him as an equal - which causes his whole world to blossom. I love how she opened the world

You may think this is a small book....it is not.You may think this is a quick read...it is not.You may judge this book by its cover but you will change your mind.From Pushkin Press: "His mother called him a worthless halfwit while his fellow drunks at the local bar ensure he's the butt of all their jokes. He spends his days whittling wood, counting pigeons and adding his own name to the bottom of the list on the town war memorial. So how could Germain possibly understand what a casual encounter

Lovely book reminiscent of the Curious Incident of the Dog. The blossoming of the friendship between Germain and the elderly Margueritte. Beautiful, poignant and kind.

Charming, in a word. French story, brutish man befriends an expiring old woman. The latter "civilizes" the former, who narrates the story in a distinct and effective voice, revealing his own life bit by begrudgingly sentimental bit.

Originally posted in my blog: www.bongbongbooks.wordpress.comThis is easily the most touching book that I read this year. This book is just overflowing with honesty and sincerity that did not find it hard to connect to it.The book follows the story of a unique friendship between a 85-year old Margueritte and 45-year old Germain. Germain was not born in what we can say a normal household. He never meet his father who left them long before he was born. Left with the burden of raising a child on