{"id":3428,"date":"2017-07-26T20:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2020-03-10T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T07:22:04","slug":"tin-man-sarah-winman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/tin-man-sarah-winman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tin Man by Sarah Winman \u2013 An Achingly Beautiful Novel for your Next Book Club Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"
A story of love and friendship that undergoes the test of time.<\/p>\n
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Tin Man<\/em> is the story of three friends \u2013 Ellis, Michael and Annie. We see Ellis as a lonely man at first. Then we are thrown into the good times that Ellis and Michael spent together as the best of friends which could have become something more than just friendship. After that, we are plunged to another world where Ellis and Annie are together. The book fills in the reader with all the details that happened in between these three crucial points in the characters\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sarah Winman has a charming writing style which is a mosaic of different techniques. It is poetic at some places, raw at others; fragmentary at some places and detailed at others. Overall, this gives a very interesting mixture of literary delight that a reader will be thrilled to be part of. The book is written in third person and tells Ellis\u2019 story in the first half. In the second half, the narration shifts to a first person POV of Michael. This change in narration brings in a whole new dimension to the story. We see the intricacies of relationships, tragedies that befall lives and the pain of living after a loss.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Love is the major theme of the novel \u2013 familial love, heterosexual love, homosexual love, unrequited love, love among friends and even love among neighbours and co-workers. Sarah Winman describes her characters in few words but she makes their flaws stand out in a striking way that one cannot help admiring the \u2018human-ness\u2019 in them. Even minor characters like Mr. Khan make a huge impact in the mind of the reader in the few scenes that he is part of. It was heart breaking to follow Ellis through his loves and life; and how he tries to be at peace with his past.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nA Mosaic of Literary Delight<\/h3>\n
Themes and Hiccups<\/h3>\n