Book review: The Notebook by Agota Kristof I’m Reading a book called The Notebook (El Gran Cuaderno, Spanish title). I started last night and gave it up when I got half way through. At that time I was very tired, and this book deserves to be read paying full attention. I went to bed really stunned by the theme. The story is about the cruelty and is writing in a literary way. It’s by someone called Agota Kristof. She was born in Hungary on October,1935. At 21 years old, she moved to Switzerland, where she started learning French and written novels in that language. The first one was the Notebook. It haven’t too much pages (ninety or so, depend on the kind of edition or the size of the words). It has had a great impact and has been translated into many languages. It’s taken part of a trilogy. It has been built adding very short tales (two page more o less each one), which is good to think and take a breath before going into the next one. It has a twin’s life in it. Both of the children look at the cruelty of the world and they try to protect themselves training into the bad with an unemotional look. The writing style is nude, accurate, without adjectives. You run into the story through short phrases made of the right words. No feelings on it, anyone is attempting to explain us what is happening, Things just happen and no one can understand why the cruelty is. I find the book devastating and the great beauty. I advise it for readers who like good literature.