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anpu325's review against another edition
5.0
Awful and beautiful all at once. Examines war, conscience, and the fate of humankind in the face of annihilation from different angles in poetic and heartrending prose.
paulataua's review against another edition
2.0
I really don't have much to say about this novel. I just couldn't get on with the writing style and it was a story that wasn't very interesting at the beginning, but got less and less interesting page after page, like I was sinking in a quicksand of nothing relevant. I wanted something deeper about the Stalin purges than the thought of "could they really be guilty?'. I wanted so much more and was disappointed.
msgtdameron's review against another edition
4.0
Great read of survival in the most absurd circumstances. By absurd I mean you love your country and you love where your country was headed but some one came along and hijacked that dream. Some one named Stalin. You still love your country but you can't support this man. What do you do? That is the dilemma that Serge explores in Unforgiving years. The plot revolves around two individuals. D who leaves the party and disappears and Daria who continues her party work even though she is tried, exiled, returned, sent to Leningrad and then Germany to continue her intelligence/Comitern work. For the Soviet State the Comitern, the Party Organ responsible for organizing the world wide Communist Revolution, and intelligence work are one and the same. Serge explores how both deal with their conscience and their love for the party even with Stalin in charge. A great read to explore divided loyalties and pertinent to our world today.
savshu's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
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