Well, I must report that the author of “Tolstoy Lied,” appears to have lied. In the beginning of the novel, she asserts that Tolstoy was wrong in his first line of "Anna Karenina", which stated that "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." But, apparently she wasn't able write a novel in which happy people are interesting, because her characters are disappointingly empty and pessimistic.
I thought for a moment that the author was trying to be clever and prove Tolstoy correct, but at the end of the novel, she tries to pull it together by saying they actually ARE happy, just in their own way. And, that happiness simply can't be defined.
LAME!!
hahahaha! I think this means that YOU have to write the book to pull it all together. YOU have the idea. A short story, perhaps. Mmmhmmm.
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