The Safekeep
People will say The Safekeep is a love story, or people will say The Safekeep is about how WWII affected a country, but the magic of Yael van der Wouden’s debut is a house and how a structure’s story changes depending on who occupies it. A structure will always = shelter, but is this shelter fair, just, or healthy? “Bound to this house, he said. As if it was a tether and not a shelter.”
The Safekeep is one of those books that maybe I should have seen what was coming, how the author was tying things together. But I didn’t, until the time was right, and that is probably why this novel has been so lauded and is on the Booker shortlist.
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