Book Review: The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: Standalone
Genre: Literary fiction, Historical fiction
Pages: 567 pages (Kindle edition)
Published: 9th February 2017 by Doubleday (UK) & 22nd August 2017 by Hogarth Press (US)
The Heart’s Invisible Furies is beautiful, heartbreaking, dark, and occasionally humorous.
If you follow my reviews, you should know already that literary fiction isn’t my favorite genre to read; I probably read, at most, one or two literary fiction book per year. But when I finished A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne, which I enjoyed very much, at the end of last year, I knew that I had to give his most highly-praised work, The Heart’s Invisible Furies, a read and I’m glad I did.
“But for all that we had, for all the luxury to which we were accustomed, we were both denied love, and this deficiency would be scorched into our future lives like an ill-considered tattoo inscribed on buttocks after a drunken night out, leading each of us inevitably toward isolation and disaster.”