Traveling on One Leg

Rating:
Summary: Looking Through Irene's Eyes
Review: A short novel that tells of Irene, an emigrant who has crossed over from Romania to Germany. Not a T goes uncrossed in Muller's description of Irene's thoughs. Each flower she touches is thoroughly described and each man in her life is turned out for the reader to see his level worth in her world. As Irene waits to get her German citizenship, she travels to small towns where she meets with her lovers and carefully considers the towns and the men.

It is a book of thoughts, more than it is of action. The reader gets the feeling that it was originally written as poetry.

I enjoyed the feel of the story and how it moved along. I do not, however, think I needed it to be any longer than it was. A full length novel with the story told in this way might have been too tedious.