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The Angel Maker (Hardcover)

by Stefan Brijs (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (10 Jul 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0297852191
  • ISBN-13: 978-0297852193
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 402,184 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"...has superglue-soaked covers; you can't put it down... compulsive reading... This is a great big clunking fist of a book. Prepare to be knocked speechless."


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headline: A TALL TALE OF ANGELIC SONS AND LOFTY IDEALS "delivers explanations by - very brilliantly - juxtaposing Hoppe's early life with his ground breaking progress... The narrative is fast-paced with a sizeable cast, yet is it Dr Hoppe's own section which moves us most and reveals the author's deepest intentions." (THE INDEPENDENT )

"...has superglue-soaked covers; you can't put it down... compulsive reading... This is a great big clunking fist of a book. Prepare to be knocked speechless." (SFX MAGAZINE )

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"a frightening portrait of a character whose terrifying behaviour spirals out of control" (EVENING EXPRESS (SCOTLAND) )

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"poweful novel... an important message, and one which Brij's highly-individual approach conveys with powerful effect." (YORKSHIRE EVENING POST )
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5.0 out of 5 stars A complex and engaging thriller, 17 Aug 2008
By A Common Reader "Committed to reading" (Sussex, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Angel Maker (Paperback)
The Angel Maker is one of the few (only?) books I have read by a Belgian author, which is probably more to do with a lack of interest on the part of publishers in Flemish/English translations than any lack of talent in the Belgian publishing scene. Certainly, Stefan Brijs has produced a complex and engaging novel, which deservedly won the Golden Owl from the Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature in 2006. Hester Velmans has translated the book in a flowing style leaving no sense of "translation" in the finished work.

The book seems to be marketed by its publishers as thriller, but it is far much than that. The story concerns a doctor who returns to the small village of Wolfheim after many years, with three identical children in the back-seat of his car, all with a hare-lip. Dr Victor Hoppe lives a secluded life and keeps his children away from public view. The villagers view him with suspicion but he soon wins their trust by performing some notable cures.

It is almost impossible to review this book without spoiling it for other readers, for the doctor has a complex background as a medical researcher and the children are not what they seem. The author slowly reveals the doctor's past, from childhood on through medical training and into genetic research. The themes are many, but all wholly topical, from advanced fertility treatment through to the character traits accompanying Aspergers Syndrome.

The reader is drawn through a richly complex story which develops many subjects including religious intolerance, society's treatment of disability and "difference", genetic research, autism and its effect on personality. Stefan Brijs reveals an in-depth understanding of his subject matter and a search through Wikipedia shows how well-grounded he is in the background science. Underlying the whole book are questions about medical ethics which are in many cases sill unresolved by most European governments.

I would recommend this book firstly to those who have an interest in contemporary European writing and secondly to anyone who would enjoy a challenging but exiting book on a difficult subject, with many twists and turns along the way.

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